Co-founder and CEO, Modal

Erik Bernhardsson

Erik Bernhardsson is the co-founder and CEO of Modal, an AI infrastructure platform for training models, running inference, and powering AI agents. He previously built Spotify's original music recommendation system. Modal has raised over $1.2 billion and surpassed $1 billion in ARR.

Known For

ModalSpotify's original music recommendation system

Episodes

#20VC: Who Wins the Inference Market | Has Open-Source LLM Inference Peaked? | What Happens to the Cost of Compute | The Real Limits of Post-Training and RL with Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEONov 2, 2026