AI application startups
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2024 by Saam Motamedi · across every show →
Everything said about AI application startups, oldest first
Jul 15, 2024 bullish
May 5, 2025
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Casado: Break-Even AI App Margins Are Deliberate Board Choices For Distribution
“In my experience, most of these companies that are like, let's say break-even margins, it's like a board level specific choice to prioritize distribution, not just because this is systemically something they have to do.”
Nov 10, 2025
Randle: AI labs set the baseline competition for application startups
“For a lot of these categories, the labs set the baseline in terms of customer experience. They're like, they're your competition at your base layer. And so whatever you can get from ChatGPT or whatever you can get from anything directly from the labs apps them…”
Dec 11, 2025
O'Driscoll: Founders must verify base models cannot easily replicate AI apps
“One of the non-negotiable disciplines before you do it is you should go and try and use the core models to do the same thing. And you should try and build a functional version of that as simply as you can. And if you can get even vaguely close to it, you need …”