
founder & managing partner @FiveMountsCap | investing in AI infra & compute | founder @PANONYGroup / @PANewsCN | @forbes 30U30
sf, nyc, taipei
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three key people behind Claude Code have left Anthropic in the last two weeks, right before the IPO 👀
Nov 3 Cat Wu
Oct 24 Thariq Shihipar
Oct 23 Anthony Morris
After every founder pitch I dig harder into what they actually do versus what they say they want to do
Turns out a lot of them are just data brokers wrapped in ideas they may never execute
Power is no longer a side constraint in AI. It is the constraint.
Goldman just put hard numbers on it: $7.6T of capital across compute, data centers, and power through 2031. Data-center power demand expected to rise 170% by 2030. US interconnection queue already more than double existing grid capacity. Median time from application to commercial operation: roughly five years. Large turbines sold out into 2029–31.
Chips got the headlines for years. The binding constraints have moved to power, grid interconnection, cooling, skilled labor, and actual time-to-energization.
From where we sit as operators and investors, the edge is shifting to teams that can underwrite real delivery timelines and the capital structures that match multi-year physical risk. Model performance still dominates the discourse. Physical delivery risk remains underpriced.
Operators and investors who have closed power or data-center deals in the last 12 months - what’s the real gap between announced GW and delivered MW that you’re underwriting for 2027–28?
Reposting this because apparently some SV founders still don’t know about TSMC or Taiwan, where 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductors are produced 🫠
I've been traveling the world a bit. One of the most incredible experiences was getting to visit Taiwan w/ @JensenHuang. It was wild 🤯.. huge crowds of engineers, insanely good street food at night markets, and of course a lot of good conversations across many days. I caught some of it on video, see below. Alright, that's it from me, love you all ❤️
Timestamps:
0:00 - Highlights
0:46 - Intro
3:25 - Computex: crowds, engineers, tech, future of AI
9:12 - Chat with Jensen: keynote prep & nerves
13:03 - Chat with Jensen: Taiwan's tech history
19:47 - Raohe night market
29:37 - Chat with Jensen: memories from childhood
33:44 - NVIDIA party
40:29 - Lunch: braised pig's feet
43:09 - Chat with Jensen: GPUs, AI, and competition
55:07 - Ningxia night market
1:10:14 - Taiwanese breakfast
1:29:54 - Outro
still shook that trump changes AI to SI
fully expected him to make AI stand for American Intelligence instead
Today’s inbound:
- A “GTM” firm sending AI slop with broken links.
- A “Fundraising Opportunity” that was really “Can you raise money for us?”
The AI spam epidemic is real.
Going to be at NVIDIA GTC next week!
Looking to meet people building the infrastructure layer of AI:
- deploying capital into compute / data centers
- data center owners or operators
- GPU miners making the shift to AI compute
DM me or drop a comment below👇





