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There’s a Massive AI Vacuum — and I’m Giving Away the Blueprint
I’m not writing this to launch something. I’m writing this because I genuinely cannot believe this hasn’t been built yet. There is a massive vacuum in the AI space right now — and it’s sitting squarely in the 50+ professional crowd. I know that because I work with them every single day. Seasoned operators. Former executives. Builders. People who have carried real weight. People who’ve managed risk, signed checks, survived recessions, navigated politics, and made hard calls wh

Rich Washburn
Feb 134 min read


Groq, NVIDIA, and the Geometry of Courage: How Creative M&A and Constraint Built the Future of AI
Let’s start where everyone’s talking right now — the number. $20 billion. That’s the reported value of NVIDIA’s “not-quite-an-acquisition” of Groq — the little AI hardware company that built a chip so unorthodox, the industry laughed when they unveiled it in 2023. Now? NVIDIA’s folding their architecture, their engineers, and their design DNA into the future of its own inference stack. Except here’s the twist — NVIDIA didn’t buy Groq outright. They structured it as a non-excl

Rich Washburn
Dec 27, 20254 min read


The AI Revolution: How NVIDIA Became a Trillion-Dollar Titan
On November 30, 2022, the world witnessed the release of ChatGPT, an AI language model that would soon become a household name. On the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 1, 20242 min read
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