Marginal Cost
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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5 statements about Marginal Cost, every show
Evans: High marginal compute costs hinder breakout consumer AI apps
“We don't have breakout a consumer AI apps yet because I think because of marginal cost more than anything else, you can't make it free and get fifty million users and then have a revenue model.”
Suleyman: AI Knowledge And Companions Will Reach Zero Marginal Cost
“The ability to access knowledge the ability to use that knowledge to get stuff done, to write new programs, to do new scientific discovery, to get access to AI companions and emotional support. These things are gonna be zero marginal cost in a decade.”
Mensch: Foundational AI model margins will not drop to zero
“I don't think there's any way in which the marginal cost and the margin of the most important part of that technology, which is really the foundational layer becomes zero because otherwise there's definitely going to be I guess fairness problem.”
Plantenga: Steering marketplaces by average CAC instead of marginal CAC is dangerous
“So therefore, it's very, very important to consistently really look at the marginal cost and not the average cost of all your cock, because that's also a very, very big mistake, right? You can say, I have a cock of This. Okay, nice, but what is, let's say, you…”
Christensen: Marginal cost thinking traps established companies facing disruption
“In accounting, we teach people that you should ignore fixed and sunk costs and only look at the marginal cost and marginal revenue Associated with the proposal that you're making a decision about. And that idea that you should ignore sunk costs, and just look …”