George: Median US firm spends $12/employee/month on AI, top 1% spends $7,000
David George · Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era · Sep 10, 2026 · at 36:22
David George of a16z cites internal data to demonstrate that enterprise AI token diffusion remains extremely early across the broader economy.
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“The median company in the US is spending 12 dollars per employee on AI. Per month. The top one percent of the data set that we've seen is spending 7000 dollars per employee on AI per month.”
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