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Clements: Cursor will build specialized coding models for enterprise users
“Cursor is going to build specialized coding models that are going to serve specialized coding tasks, especially for a lot of enterprise users.”
Zinman: Public SaaS companies will match AI startups in agentic work
“On one hand, I see people excited about private companies because they build tools in the AI era that kind of captured the, what I've referred to as doing the work, but I'll tell you a secret. You know, public companies will do it as well. We're going to do it…”
Zinman: Monday.com plans to be the default platform for enterprise AI orchestration
“And we want to make Monday the default place for people to build agents and to collaborate between agents and people. So essentially you'll build Monday, you build agents on the top of Monday. Those agents will output tables, docs, files. People will go over i…”
Zinman: Monday.com is pivoting entirely to AI agents
“One, in terms of our horizontal platform, we're going all in agents and humans working together. We're shifting the product a hundred percent, the pricing, the go-to-market, the product. We have two vertical offerings, the CRM and service. For that, we're buil…”
Lemkin: Claude Code will aggressively attack Figma's business this year
“So I believe it will aggressively attack parts of Figma this year, even though they're key partners.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic's three-year 10x revenue growth is unprecedented in tech history
“The truth is you've never seen a company grow 10 X in gap revenue and runway year on year for three years. Right? At this scale. It just hasn't happened.”
O'Driscoll: Thrive Capital specifically declined Anthropic investment due to OpenAI stake
“They actually specifically, unlike some of the other funds that have invested in both, they've Specifically our fund that said, no, we backed open AI. We're not going to back on tropics.”
Siemiatkowski: Klarna is not rolling back its implementation of AI
“Like, I think actually if you read the article, the original article, it's actually fairly balanced and it kind of tries to describe this, but then the headline is like, they're rolling AI back, you know, and then the whole media circus go on. So it's like, oh…”
Siemiatkowski: Klarna headcount is shrinking 20% annually via attrition
“So we're shrinking Through natural attrition with about 20% per year, it's just people leaving their stay about five years and then they move on, which is natural.”
Siemiatkowski: Media perception flipped when Klarna valuation dropped to $6.5B
“When we were the most, you know the most highest valued fintech in Europe, blah, blah, blah. Then like, I could do no wrong. Whatever I said was like, that's brilliant. He's so smart. And then when we like, you know when we came down to 6.5, and we had to do l…”
Lemkin: Customer support has seen the highest hiring reductions in tech
“No category has been more decimated in hiring than support. No one's hiring. Like it's radically down.”
Acharya: 75% of public SaaS companies raised prices post-ChatGPT
“I looked at the data this morning, and if you look at SaaS, public market SaaS companies, 75% have raised prices since ChatGPT was released.”
Acharya: OpenAI reached $20B top line by tripling capacity and matching demand
“Look, this is not my area of focus or expertise, but one, you look at OpenAI's recent investment announcement, sorry, which is that there are twenty billion of top line. And the way that they got there is they three X capacity and they three X top line. So eve…”
Anish Acharya: Early AI market leaders from 2023-2024 have maintained their dominance
“In this product cycle, what's actually interesting is a bunch of the early leaders from 23 and 24 have maintained their lead. You know, we talked about Harvey. That's a really impressive company. You know, Gamma is a really impressive company. You know, Cursor…”
Stebbings: SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25T combined valuation merger
“Last few hours, or 24 hours, SpaceX has completed the acquisition of XAI, valuing the combined private company at 1.25 trillion, as Elon moves to pair the businesses together.”
Lemkin: OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI will rush IPOs due to capital pressure
“What all three of those say to me is there's no matter, there's subtle pressure around access to capital. Like they've all got to have an IPO strategy sooner than they'd hoped because Data center, because XAI needs capital, because Anthropic is even worried ab…”
O'Driscoll: Churn rates have not spiked for core SaaS systems of record
“The churn rates haven't gone up. So there's no evidence that their revenue is any less durable. And there's this whole narrative about how it'd be replaced by Vibe coding, but I think, Jason, your post was great on why that's bullshit. Churn hasn't spiked for …”
O'Driscoll: NVIDIA issued a document committing up to $100B to OpenAI
“There's a piece of paper. With the NVIDIA logo on it that said we'll do up to a hundred billion, and they put it out there, and now they're like, where's my hundred billion?”
O'Driscoll: Waymo is burdened by high LiDAR and remote driver costs
“Waymo works, and the problem is cost structure. The Tesla product doesn't quite work yet, but if it does, the cost structure will be lower, right? Waymo has the physical costs of the more expensive cars. It has, obviously, including the LiDAR cost, and then le…”
Navan was the first company to conduct COVID layoffs over Zoom
“They were the first company to let people go. And they got so much shit on, ah, for it because they fired people Over Zoom, as if there was any other way they could have, and they still got a lot of shit from the press”
Zeev: Management fees exceed carry value in mega VC funds
“Look, especially in the larger funds the compensation that the V, that the GP gets from the management fee, especially if you account for time value of money is typically greater than the than the upside.”
Omer Shai says most relevant global web traffic remains on Google
“And again, in general, when you are looking at most of the traffic, the relevant traffic in the world, it's still on Google.”
O'Driscoll: Nvidia puts will eventually be a great buy due to cycles
“At some point, NVIDIA ports will be a great buy, because every semiconductor cycle for the last 40 years has ended up in a massive downswing. I ain't buying them today.”
O'Driscoll: TikTok US generates $15B-$16B revenue and was bought for ~1x
“I think the company's doing 15 or sixteen billion dollars in the US revenue, And they bought it for like one times revenue plus or minus.”
O'Driscoll: Annual AI CapEx exceeds app revenue by $500 billion
“The capex is now six hundred billion, the app's revenue, you know, squinting is A hundred billion. So you're still, you know, five hundred billion a year in the hole”
Lemkin: Wealthfront's IPO is deeply broken and trading down 30-40%
“It's a deeply broken IPO. You know, it's trading down what? 30 or 40% from its IPO and it's subscale. Like it's worse. It's subscale, right?”
Junestrand: Legora added $7M in ARR in a single day in 2025
“In a single day in 2025, we added seven million of ARR in 24 hours.”
Junestrand: Legora beats Harvey as top UK law firm AI tool
“I was on Bloomberg a couple of weeks back and they had a big infographic that said that the most deployed generative AI tool in the top 200 law firms in the UK outside of Microsoft Copilot is Legora. Number two was Harvey.”
Junestrand: Law partners assign tasks to human associates and AI simultaneously
“One of the themes that I've noticed is that partners at these firms that we work with are starting to think that the technology is so good that as they give a task to their team member, they will simultaneously give that task to Lagora.”
O'Driscoll: Musk Seeks $70B to $130B in OpenAI Equity Damages
“The damages claim is 70 to a hundred and thirty billion dollars, which would come in the form of extra shares of open AI to Elon and everyone else would have to take the dilution.”
Lovinsky: AI models will achieve continuous learning and self-improvement by 2026
“I think we're going to crack the, like, continuous learning, self-improving. These things, you know, can just be set on a task and given the context and build the memory and are just going to get better on their own for, you know, the majority of tasks that yo…”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic's revenue multiple is lower than Palantir's
“It's a much lower revenue multiple than Palantir. It's kind of comparable with Cloudflare for God's sake in the public markets.”
Lemkin: Anthropic cut off xAI's access to its models
“Even little things like Anthropic cutting off XAI's access to Anthropic this week.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic has closed its valuation gap with OpenAI to 2:1
“The way I keep score is the relative value of Amtropic to open AI is kind of the ratio of let's call it management success from over the last three years. And the truth is it's gone from, you know, 10 or eight to, you know, 10 plus to one to much more converge…”
Stebbings: ChatGPT usage dropped 22% after Google released new Gemini models
“Since the new Gemini models came out, you've had a 22% drop in ChatGPT usage.”
Lemkin: Andreessen Horowitz has achieved top-decile VC fund returns
“The returns were published. The returns are top decile. So you have the biggest fund, the top decile returns or quartile, whatever, top tier, which used to be a knock. And founders love this brand.”
O'Driscoll: a16z wins more top Series A deals than Benchmark
“Andreessen's market share is higher than benchmarks in terms of that. That worked. And I wish Rotman, the guy from DST did. It's higher in terms of the great series A's, right? As a market share, but the hit rate is much lower.”
Stebbings: Meta acquired Manus for $2.5B at 25x ARR
“The price was two and a half billion dollars. It was a 25 X current ARR. They were at a hundred million of ARR, doing a hundred and twenty-five million run rate, including consumption.”
Lemkin: OpenAI retains only around 60% of its AI researchers
“They still only have like 60 something percent retention in researchers at OpenAI.”
Chang: Fuse Energy is generating over $400M in annualized revenue
“So the company is doing over four hundred million revenue, annualized revenue,”
Lemkin: 2026 will see one or two trillion-dollar tech IPOs
“The idea that we will have a trillion dollar IPO next year, maybe two, we might have two trillion dollar IPOs”
Marolf: On Running's LightSpray produces shoes in three minutes without human labor
“Other than that, I think Light Sprays is just, her latest innovation is, is just a very interesting piece of an innovation platform that we're building out. It can be seen as controversial because you make a shoe in three minutes and you don't need any humans,…”
Calacanis: SpaceX will go public at a valuation of $1T or more
“Tesla had to IPO. Now it was a different time. It really barely had any revenue, but same guy running them. It IPO'd at 1.7 billion, which seemed very expensive. 1.7 billion. The sister company will IPO at 1.7 trillion or one trillion.”
O'Driscoll: Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google over IP usage
“They sent a cease and desist letter to Google Because for unlicensed use of the content.”
Calacanis: ChatGPT monthly user growth has slowed to single digits
“If you look at the numbers, the growth is down to single digits. Like, it's just, it is empirically true on any source. The growth is down to single digits on monthly growth.”
O'Driscoll: Public markets will fall 30% in the next two to three years
“What tends to happen is, at one point in the next two or three years, things drop 30%, and then you crawl back slowly over the rest of the decade, right?”
O'Driscoll: Founders Fund's SpaceX deal will return $50B–$100B
“There's no doubt in a world where one investment might return 50 to a hundred Billion dollars. Everyone else has to feel just a teeny tiny tad irrelevant compared to that return for founders fund and good on them. It's a 20 year compounder at 50% plus or minus…”