Children with severe spinal deformities shouldn’t wait years for a second chance.
🗓️On Dec 3 I’ll share SpineHope’s mission at the 2026 Western Union Global Fellowship Summit, how we get life-changing surgery to kids who otherwise wouldn’t have access.
📢Join us, registration link below for the virtual summit!
🏃♀️➡️Bring people who care about real impact and global healthcare access to the most marginalized.
@WesternUnion@WesternUnionFdn@Watson_Inst@dellchildrens@fundacionhdlv@Medtronic@MDTFoundation@GlobusMedical@spinehope
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Ten minutes after Adam Neumann stepped down as WeWork's CEO, the bank demanded $460 million in 15 days. His advice: "Choose your partner for the day something like that happens, not for any other day."
@AdamNeumann
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A spine surgery that costs ~$1M without insurance. SpineHope does it for about $4,000. Art Serna explains how on Doing Business with a Servant's Heart 🧵 https://t.co/DYI4a6sGzR via @YouTube
I am grateful to Voyage San Antonio for the opportunity to share the story behind my work as Executive Director of SpineHope.
The work is personal. I watched my father endure years of chronic pain and multiple spinal surgeries, and I saw the relief that expert care can bring to a person and an entire family. That experience continues to shape why I believe no child should have to wait years for the possibility of mobility, relief, and dignity.
The story also reflects my ties to San Antonio, my UTSA training in management of technology, and the many medical professionals, volunteers, donors, and partners who make this mission possible.
#SpineHope #PediatricSpineCare #GlobalHealth #HealthcareLeadership #HumanitarianLeadership #SanAntonio #UTSA #MedicalMissions
NEW: Premium Inference 101
The Economics & Infrastructure Behind Running Trillion Parameter Models
@RodrigoLiang, CEO & Co-Founder of @SambaNovaAI
"Inference has arrived. 70-80% of those racks are running inference."
"[Inference services] are generating lots of revenue, but not enough margin. In order for them to sustain, they've gotta be more profitable."
"With SambaNova, that min quantum is down to 1 rack. Where if you have other service providers, [with] say, a DeepSeek model, now 1.5 trillion parameters, to run that, the min for some of the other providers might be 10-20 racks."
SambaNova builds full-stack inference infrastructure. 16 chips to a 10kW air-cooled rack that runs trillion parameter models, where a GPU rack pulls 130kW.
They just demonstrated the fastest MiniMax M2.7 inference in the world, as benchmarked by Artificial Analysis.
The demo paired one NVIDIA H200 rack for prefill with one SambaRack SN50 for decode. Disaggregated inference: GPUs load the context, RDUs generate the tokens.
Now serving JPMorgan, SoftBank, Saudi Aramco & DOE national labs, just valued at $11B on a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic.
We Cover:
› Why inference will need orders of magnitude more chips than training ever did
› The 10kW rack vs the 130kW rack, & why air cooling decides geography
› Running a 1T parameter model in one rack at full precision, no quantization
› The agent latency problem: 20 agents, 2 seconds each, 40 seconds gone
› Revenue per rack, & why inference providers have revenue but no margin
› JPMorgan, sovereignty, & the move back to on-prem
Filmed at the @RaiseSummit in Paris.
Thank you to Brex, MongoDB & AssemblyAI for helping make this trip & content series happen.
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Rodrigo Liang , Co-Founder & CEO at SambaNova Systems
(00:59) SambaNova’s Series F: $1B raise at an $11 billion valuation
(03:00) The Inference problem nobody saw coming
(04:52) SambaNova's chip evolution
(07:19) Running a trillion-parameter model on a single rack
(11:00) Do $100 billion data centers actually make sense?
(14:14) What "premium inference" really means
(18:28) Speed is about to become AI's biggest price tag
(20:43) Starlink, edge computing, & AI reaching every corner of the planet
(24:27) Working alongside NVIDIA & rival chipmakers
(27:49) How customers actually measure inference performance
(32:07) The biggest bottlenecks in AI's global land grab
(35:12) Justifying the billion-dollar AI valuations
(37:53) Why SambaNova refuses to build its own cloud
(41:03) The "AI sovereignty" debate
(43:48) Data privacy fears are driving the return to on-prem AI
(47:55) How to actually get ROI out of AI spend
(51:16) The one question every business should be asking about AI
(56:09) The mentors & lessons behind a 32-year career in chips
(58:02) Unveiling SambaNova's newest chip, the SN50
The “I PLAY ROCKY” trailer just dropped about the true origin story of Sylvester Stallone.
This is as AMERICA as it gets. 🇺🇸
This just RIPPED My face off.
The Builder’s Equation: Purpose + Proximity + People = Impact.
Full conversation with Jill Hart coming later this year. Until then, get in the sandbox.
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Sidny Lopes Cabral saca un TREMENDO DISPARO y hace un GOLAZAZAZO sobre Argentina.
Páez verlo una y otra vez:
From building a business, to exiting at $37 Millions.
So, Who is Max Lewis?
You can find out as Max Lewis is coming back to BookThinkers LIVE 2026 and he’ll have a very special message to share.
Join Max and 400+ entrepreneurs, authors, podcasters, who care deeply about thought leadership and making a difference.
📍 BookThinkers LIVE 2026
📍 July 11th & 12th
📍 Boston, MA
400+ authors, entrepreneurs, speakers, and lifelong learners gathering for two days of connection, ideas, and transformation.
There is only a limited amount of tickets left!
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Most history is written about the famous.
I'm interested in the Unknowns.
The builders.
The innovators.
The leaders quietly preparing for tomorrow.
Grateful to Rashad Woods for inviting me onto the TRON podcast to explore leadership, AI, purpose, and the movement behind The Unknowns Rising.
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