nikhil jain

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building the markets behind ai infrastructure.

i started gpu mart, a marketplace for buying and selling ai infrastructure, after building valdi.

finding compute is only the first step. deploying it still means stitching together hardware, data centers, power, cooling, networking and capital.

also

infragps: an early public research project mapping the companies, infrastructure and capital behind ai compute.

exploring how compute capacity gets priced, financed, contracted and eventually traded.

qroute: experimenting with pay-as-you-go access to quantum simulation and hardware.

investor in freeflow and hydra host.

earlier

valdi: co-founded a gpu cloud. acquired in 2024.

oben: co-founded a personal ai company in 2014, working on voice and digital identity.

i keep ending up in markets that are early, fragmented and hard to navigate.

older ideas i still like

outside work

upcoming hike: mt whitney

recent hikes: agnew meadows to thousand island lake, bell rock, north rim to south rim, and cactus to clouds.

late night reading: foundation series, the snowball, sophie's world, the socrates express, first principles, surprise, kill, vanish, meditations, the bitcoin standard, and principles.