Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #224 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Marc, Rob, Bill, Dimitri, Pete, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Looking back on the pre-Bad Karaoke days of IoT Coffee Talk
* Is NVIDIA the center of our universe? What will happen on NVIDIA Day?
* Does NVIDIA have a play in edge and IoT?
* Is cloud repatriation a real thing? Michael Dell seems to think so.
* Jumping off the VMware ship. How could cloud repatriation be possible?
* K8 and serverless - the ultimate cloud lock-in glue!
* Cloud economics were never visible because we didn't do FinOps.
* Do you need to grow your IT group again?
* FinTech is not FinOps!!!!
* Why surveys are mostly misguiding.
* How Hock Tan shook the world and might have disrupted the cloud narrative.
* The ruthless and painful reinvention of VMware and the future of cloud.
* The residual value of GenAI beyond the hype implosion.
* Hot Chips 2024 takes on the future of GenAI computing.
* Why industrial policy in advance economies is tougher
* When will we start to water crops with Gatorade? When we fail to ask good questions.

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