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Bryan Cantrill

Co-founder & CTO, Oxide Computer Company

Search every verified Bryan Cantrill interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bryan Cantrill, co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, appeared on two programs in late September and mid-October 2026. On the September 27 episode of MTS, he discussed his company's focus on rack-scale hardware and software co-design, explaining that Oxide was founded in 2019 to avoid pivoting to software and to address the breakdowns he observed in cloud computing at scale. He also criticized AI extinction fears, stating that doomsday predictions stem from a lack of familiarity with industrial reality, and suggested that people would benefit from experiencing factory or mining work to better understand automation's actual risks. On the October 15 episode of TVPN, Cantrill discussed Oxide's engineering approach, noting that the company does not resell catalog items but engineers systems, and he acknowledged the risk of failure, saying some companies that attempted similar efforts have become "zeros." He also reflected on his past predictions, including a 2003 forecast about the iPhone, which he correctly anticipated as a new gadget but initially thought would be a flop.

Recent appearances

  • SELL EVERYTHING (Including Your Dollars), PPI God Candle, Lee Jae Myung Says "We Must Live"

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:05:04 Recapping Anthropic Investor Day 00:15:04 SELL EVERYTHING 00:23:24 Inflation Heats Up 00:30:29 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:44:02 Valar Atomics VC Feud 00:51:16 Tesla Roadster Hype 01:00:53 Porsche Mission S 01:04:49 Reed Albergotti, Semafor’s San Francisco bureau chief and host of the Future Proof podcast, discusses Tesla’s self-driving technology, Microsoft’s AI strategy, Xbox’s future, and the debate over regulating open-source AI. He also examines the financial and infrastructure bottlenecks facing the AI industry as technology companies rapidly increase spending. 01:26:45 Bryan Cantri…

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  • Bryan Cantrill: Keynote: "Rust, In Sickness & In Health" | RustConf 2026

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 Rust Foundation

    Session Description & Speaker Bio: https://sched.co/2KHuE Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jd9o...

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  • AI Doomsday Predictions Lack Real-World Reality | Bryan Cantrill

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 MTS

    Bryan Cantrill, CTO and co-founder of Oxide Computer Company, breaks down why cloud computing economics collapse at scale and why the enterprise needs purpose-built rack-scale hardware. He also takes aim at AI extinction fears, explaining why doomsday predictions stem from a lack of domain specificity and industrial reality. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠https://lovable.dev.⁠ Turn ideas into software people love. -- ⁠https://x.com/bcantrill⁠ -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠  / mtslive⁠⁠   YouTu…

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  • SE Radio 709: Bryan Cantrill on the Data Center Control Plane

    February 26, 2026 · 📺 IEEEComputerSociety

    Bryan Cantrill, the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer company, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about challenges in deploying hardware on-premises at scale. They discuss the difficulty of building up Samsung data centers with off-the-shelf hardware, how vendors silently replace components that cause performance problems, and why AWS and Google build their own hardware. Bryan describes the security vulnerabilities and poor practices built into baseboard management controllers, the purpose of a control plane, and his experiences building one in NodeJS while struggling with the runtime's future du…

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  • Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware

    January 30, 2026 · 📺 Jane Street

    In this hilarious tech talk / polemic, Bryan Cantrill unpacks his complex feelings about Marc Andreessen's essay "Why Software Is Eating The World". He dissects what software even is from Euclid to the IBM 1401, explains three gnarly bugs his startup Oxide encountered at the lowest levels of the stack, and demonstrates why Alan Kay was right: "People who are really serious about software do their own hardware." Chapters 00:06 Talk begins 1:03:45 Audience Q&A

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  • The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide

    December 17, 2025 · 📺 The Pragmatic Engineer

    How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems during both the Dotcom Boom and the Dotcom Bust. Today, he is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer, where he works on modern server infrastructure. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, Bryan joins me to break down how modern computing infrastructure evolved. We discuss why the Dotcom Bust produced deeper innovation than the Boom, how constraints shape better systems, and what the rise of the cloud changed and did not change about buildi…

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  • The Complexity of Simplicity

    November 13, 2025 · 📺 Oxide Computer Company

    Keynote given at TalosCon by Oxide Co-Founder and CTO Bryan Cantrill in Amsterdam on October 17, 2025. Slides available at https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/the...

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  • Who wants Oxide Computer and Why?

    October 28, 2025 · 📺 Tech Field Day

    The video centers on Oxide's mission to address the inefficiencies and integration challenges prevalent in the industry, which is commoditized and ossified. Oxide started with a clean sheet of paper, tackling problems accumulated over decades by building their own machines fit for purpose, rather than relying on personal computers in data centers. Oxide aims to disrupt the visceral problems in the industry, like AC power supplies per 1U/2U, cords everywhere, fans everywhere, inefficiency; that is just the beginning. Oxide sought not only to replicate what hyperscalers had done, such as using…

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  • Inside Oxide | Founders of Oxide on stage at OxCon 2025

    September 29, 2025 · 📺 Changelog

    Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck, the co-founders of Oxide, are on the pod live (to tape) from the stage at OxCon. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide's annual internal conference to meet the people and to hear the stories of what makes Oxide a truly special place to work right now. The best part was this on-stage discussion with Bryan and Steve. Enjoy! SUBSCRIBE: RSS: https://changelog.am/rss Apple: https://changelog.am/apple Spotify: https://changelog.am/spotify Android: https://changelog.am/android Overcast: https://changelog.am/overcast Email: https://changelog.am/email X: https://x.com/chang…

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  • Bryan Cantrill on raising $100 million to make Oxide a generational computer company

    August 16, 2025 · 📺 Changelog

    Bryan Cantrill returns in the wake of ‪@oxidecomputercompany‬'s $100M Series B. Bryan tells us how he's avoiding an appearance on Silicon Valley (ding), why their uniform compensation is working, where Oxide fits in the AI datacenter, what scaling to 50+ rack orders looks like, and more. (GitHub has no CEO and saving Intel)++ SUBSCRIBE: RSS: https://changelog.am/rss Apple: https://changelog.am/apple Spotify: https://changelog.am/spotify Android: https://changelog.am/android Overcast: https://changelog.am/overcast Email: https://changelog.am/email X: https://x.com/changelog Bluesky: https://b…

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  • An Interview with Oxide's Bryan Cantrill

    March 27, 2025 · 📺 Chips and Cheese

    Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we have an interview with Bryan Cantrill from Oxide Computer Company. Cloud computing has been a tour de force in the computing industry, with many businesses and even governments moving over to cloud services for their computing infrastructure. This gives these companies and governments near complete isolation from any hardware issues that may crop up due to the sheer size of many cloud providers, which allows them to automatically migrate VMs to other systems while the hardware issue is being resolved. But not everything can or even should be moved to t…

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  • P99 CONF 2024 | DTrace at 21: Reflections on Fully-grown Software by Bryan Cantrill

    March 07, 2025 · 📺 ScyllaDB

    Go to https://www.p99conf.io/ for P99 CONF talks on demand and to learn more. . . . . . Twenty one years ago, DTrace was integrated into the operating system. My any measure, the software is now fully-grown: it is open source, has been ported to several operating systems, and is still in daily use. In this session, we'll reflect back on DTrace at 21: the stuff we got right, the stuff we figured out -- and the ways in which we got lucky. . . . . . P99 CONF is the technical conference for anyone who obsesses over high-performance, low-latency applications. Engineers from Shopify, Uber, Disney, N…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“Don't screw it up. I don't want to phrase this too bluntly, but sometimes I think when you've got a very very good thing going, and maybe in a marriage, you've got a very good thing going, you lose track of what a great thing you've got. Rust has lightning in a bottle. What we have is extraordinary as a community, as a language, and it's very important that we not screw it up. How could we screw it up? Well one of th”

“I just think that this is where people just don't they people would benefit from like going working in a factory, going to a mine, looking at a mine, go into like the actual industrial economy that people are talking about. It doesn't work the way you think it does. Just doesn't. And we've got an entire generation that like doesn't have callous hands. I mean, I hate to put it so pjoratively, but people that that are ”

“The reason that Samsung bought Joy is Samsung's cloud bill was let's just say it was extremely March, they were spending an enormous amount of money every year on the public cloud and they realized that in order to secure their fate economically, they had to be running on their own infrastructure. Just did not make sense and there was not really a product that Samsung could go buy that would give them that on-prem cl”

“The true folly here though is this idea that software and hardware are totally disjoint. And that essay I think over and over and over again kind of implicitly denigrates hardware. Hardware is something that is low margin. It is commodity. There's a bunch of kind of ways that hardware is actually denigrated unless it's changing your life with the phone in which case software ate it apparently. But there's this kind o”

“The problem is that it is extremely reductive. And it's reductive for understandable reasons. It's like I get it. Like you're a VC. It's like bacteria. You kind of do what VCs do. And in particular, you conflate innovation with new company formation. This kind of drives me nuts. If you work for an established company, you know, there is a lot of innovation that happens at established companies. News flash. And yes, t”

“We knew that one, cloud computing is the future of all computing. Not a deep thought that elastic infrastructure, API-driven infrastructure, that is modernity. Two, you shouldn't be able to only rent that; you should be able to buy that, own it, run it in your own data center. Why would you want to do that? Well, you might want to do that for risk management, for security, or for economics, because if you're at a cer”

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