---
title: "Rob Wachen"
category: "people"
role: "Co-founder and President"
company: "Etched"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Rob Wachen

## Profile
Co-founder and President at [[etched|Etched]].

No public profile links listed in the official speaker roster.

## Biography
Rob Wachen is the co-founder and president of [[etched|Etched]]. [[etched|Etched]] is building rack-scale infrastructure designed to serve frontier models at scale. A Thiel Fellow and Harvard dropout, Rob previously co-founded Prod, a startup accelerator with a cohort valuation of $100B+.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-swyx-latent-space-live-the-inference-inflection-from-first-principles]] — Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles (2026-07-01, 12:30pm-1:30pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-swyx-latent-space-live-the-inference-inflection-from-first-principles|Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-I2cbIws9j10` — 91,792 transcript words; 7 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: code, model, back, system, well, first, today, even.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: context, window, selects, response, facts, retry, coerce, rollback.
- Evidence links for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-transcript]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-slides]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-dense-slides]]
- `youtube-qaJXBMwUkoE` — source page linked
- Evidence links for `youtube-qaJXBMwUkoE`: [[youtube-qaJXBMwUkoE]], [[youtube-qaJXBMwUkoE-slides]], [[youtube-qaJXBMwUkoE-dense-slides]], [[youtube-qaJXBMwUkoE-reconstructed-slides]]

## Livestream Appearances
- [[2026-07-01-swyx-latent-space-live-the-inference-inflection-from-first-principles|Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles]] — [watch at 01:43:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cbIws9j10&t=6227s) in WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield (Day 3).