AI budget

also referred to as: ai budgets

6 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2024 by Jason Lemkin · across every show →

Everything said about AI budget, oldest first

Jan 4, 2024 negative
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Box CEO Aaron Levie says enterprise customers have zero AI budget
“I asked Aaron Levy when I talked to him, when you talk with your biggest customers, what's their AI budget? He's like, their AI budget is zero. There's no AI line.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 48:35 Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 23, 2024 negative
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Enterprise AI spending remains experimental due to lack of defensible ROI
“I call it experimental because people are still not defining it all the way back to a business issue and an ROI that is, like, fully defensible.”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 23:32 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 23, 2024 bearish
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Enterprise AI tools without clear ROI will churn within two years
“AI budgets that are based on just, hey, we need to quickly enable our employees to be AI-centric that aren't tying it back to business outcomes, impact, Top line, bottom line. A year from now, two years from now, we're going to churn.”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 23:47 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 29, 2024 bearish
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Podjarny: Many AI enterprise deployments will go sideways due to slow organizational adaptation
“Well, I think a lot of AI budgets at the moment are very kind of non-resilient, right? They're coming in, people are spending money, they're trying things out, and they expect a lot from them, and I think in the long run that would be correct. But it's hard to…”
Guy Podjarny Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 3:46 Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2026 bearish
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Lemkin: CIOs will impose material clampdowns on AI budgets next year
“Next year is going to be very explicit budgets for everybody on AI and exactly. I mean, it's captain obvious to say, this is one of the areas in venture and everything where everything's up. Everything's great. Everything's great. I mean, Not, not the pre-AI c…”
Jason Lemkin Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 39:44 Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
Aug 20, 2026 neutral
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Lemkin: Software scale-ups are capping AI budgets at $6M to $8M annually
“The last 60 days are every single scale up is, is capping their AI budget for real. It's not just Ubers of the world. Everyone's capping it because it's grown truly exponentially, right? Everyone's capping it. It's six million a year, eight million a year.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 37:29 Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
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