Rob Wachen
Profile
Co-founder and President at Etched.
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Biography
Rob Wachen is the co-founder and president of 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
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Linked Sessions
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
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Livestream Appearances
- Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles — watch at 01:43:47 in WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield (Day 3).