everyone's brokering compute right now. they're making a lot of $. we should talk about it I always thought that tech hates middlemen. most people do (it's common sense. why pay someone for making an intro?). even freshman year me at Stanford knew this. for a pitch thing, my group’s entire idea was find a middleman and build something that removes them brokering will stay for a while until the market becomes more efficient. thought the brokering model was only the referral fee model but there’s also marking up the provider’s price - referral fee: introduce the buyer and provider, then get a % of deal - markup: add to every gpu-hour and keep the difference throughout the contract we live in really funny times bc you need to be careful if you want to do the markup model to not tell the buyer the provider's price or else you'll have to defer to the referral model and maybe a provider is mean and won't let you switch models HAHA sometimes there’s a stigma around admitting your company brokers compute bc it feels like everything else in the company is fake. brokering def can't be the main thing but 1) compute/life runs on relationships 2) being in the middle gives you lots of valuable info