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Raghu Raghuram
Person
Raghu Raghuram is a technology executive who served as CEO of VMware from 2021 to 2023. He previously held senior product and engineering leadership roles at VMware, including work in cloud computing and data-center virtualization.
2 episodes featuring Raghu Raghuram
The a16z Show
a16z bets AI’s next phase needs a hardware rebuild
The episode examines whether AI’s expansion will depend less on software breakthroughs than on the chips, facilities, energy, and supply chains that make deployment possible.
Aug 30, 2026 · 25 min
The a16z Show
AI’s next bottleneck is the infrastructure beneath the models
The episode frames AI’s expansion as a physical buildout constrained by chips, memory, power, cooling, networks, and data centers.
Aug 28, 2026 · 55 min