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Where the AI money actually flows

Eight moments where builders and investors put real numbers on AI: who pays whom, where the margins sit, and what it all costs. Play in order, about 30 minutes.

8 clips · 29 min · from The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch, Acquired, The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network, The a16z Show, Training Data, No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
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Where the AI money actually flows
8 clips · 29 min — plays in order
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  1. 1
    A billion in 18 months
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch — 20VC: $1BN ARR in 18 Months; The Untold Story of Higgsfield | Spending $4M Per Month on Models | Why Moats in AI are BS | Scaling a Content Team to 150 People with Alex Mashrabov @ 13:33 · 4 min
    Higgsfield's founder on crossing $1B annualized revenue, how he counts it, and a customer who went from $99 a month to $6M a year.
  2. 2
    The 5x Nvidia markup
    Acquired — Google Part III: The AI Company @ 3:33:35 · 4 min
    Acquired on why chip margins decide AI economics, and why owning your own chips changes everything for Google.
  3. 3
    The hidden margin in cached tokens
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch — 20VC: "Anti-Data Centres is a Chinese Psyop" | How Many Planned Data Centers Will Actually Get Built? | Is Energy AI's Biggest Bottleneck? With Thomas Sohmers, Co-Founder @ Positron @ 9:43 · 4 min
    Positron's Thomas Sohmers on why reused tokens are where AI providers make their money.
  4. 4
    OpenAI's $700B capex question
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch — 20VC: Meta's Muse Hits No. 1. ChatGPT Finally Has a Rival | Menlo Sounds the AI Bubble Alarm | Factory Triples Its Valuation to $5 Billion | Keith Rabois vs Airwallex: Who is Right? | Crusoe's $3.9 Billion Round. Is the Data Centre Trade Overheating? @ 10:03 · 3 min
    The 20VC panel breaks down a reported forecast: 10x revenue growth, $278B of burn, and about $700B of capex, much of it on other companies' books.
  5. 5
    40 cents per dollar of data center
    The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network — TIP847: Alphabet (GOOGL): The Megacap That Still Might Be Underrated w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O’Malley @ 1:03:16 · 2 min
    A simple test for whether Alphabet's $200B of data centers pays off: about 40 cents of new revenue for every dollar spent.
  6. 6
    $20 per user per day
    The a16z Show — The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan @ 47:57 · 3 min
    What it costs to run an ambitious personal agent, and why that makes the free agents hard to compete with.
  7. 7
    When agents, not people, visit
    Training Data — Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents @ 34:28 · 5 min
    Parag Agrawal on why ad-funded internet economics break when agents do the browsing.
  8. 8
    Buying the incumbent: $7.7B
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups — Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee @ 0:00 · 5 min
    Sequence Holdings' Michael Lee on the largest AI take-private so far, and why some incumbents keep their advantages.
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