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Lloyd: Fixed-fee AI SaaS margins worsen as product usage increases
“The more they use it, the more it costs you. So the better your product market fit in a sense of like the product is getting better, the like worse your business is from like that perspective.”
Zach Lloyd Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 23:28 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
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Lloyd: Demand for senior engineers is increasing despite AI advances
“Which again, I think reinforces the like, the importance of senior engineers is not going down. It's never been more competitive for us to hire someone good.”
Zach Lloyd Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 30:58 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
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Lloyd: Codebase rewrites are a horrible idea that pause startup momentum
“For the audience for this show, which I assume is more founders, like rewriting is like a horrible idea. It's like pausing time.”
Zach Lloyd Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 5:07 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
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