Faced with tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs and greater pressure to show real momentum quickly, startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever before using AI. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and the Foundation model make it easy to get started, but once startups move beyond free credits and into actual cloud bills those early infrastructure choices can have unexpected consequences.
In this episode of TechCrunch equity Podcast, caught by Rebecca Bellan Darren MowryGoogle Cloud’s vice president of global startup, who is at the center of those tradeoffs. Watch as they discuss what Mowry is seeing in the startup ecosystem, how Google Cloud is competing for AI startups, and what founders should be thinking about as they scale.
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