Revenue

“In our case, word of mouth keeps compounding. We are around 40% of our revenue, even at our size, which starts being really big is 40%.”

“Evidence shows the increased revenue will cover the tiny number of customers who will bulk at the higher price. And you'll walk away with more money and less work”

“In the SaaS public markets, there are only like 15 to 20 companies max trading above 10 times revenues, which is quite an insane number because it used to be dozens and dozens a few years ago.”

“Don't ever have revenue. It destroys your story.”

“I think we're like a 140% of last year in revenue, right? Yeah. Plus 40%, a 140% of last year.”

“And I think you'll start to see the revenues shifting quite a bit over the next six to 12 months.”

“To my point, I think it's flawed logic, because if you just throw a budget at people and you create a leaderboard of token usage, what are people going to do? Create a bunch of crap that has no value. And all of a sudden you burn your budget, you're paying rea…”

“I would not be shocked if you see Anthropic exiting this year at 80 to a hundred billion dollars in revenue.”

“We did 304, three hundred and four million in revenue.”

“We ended, ultimately ended up selling for eight times revenues.”

“Compute and revenue have a one-to-one correlation. So as long as that holds, it makes sense to consume every single penny of capital on all of Planet Earth.”

“How many people even believe by the end of the year, AI startup revenue is over a hundred billion dollars? I think that's an insane statement for a lot of people, but that's what it's gonna be, right?”

“And when Anthropic says in their funding, like, hey, we're gonna have three hundred billion dollars of revenue by the end of the decade, and it's like, actually I think that number's too low. Because the economic value of what they're gonna create is gonna be …”

“That being said, like, AI revenue can go up as easy as it goes down.”

“You know, one of the things I told my husband this year for one of our companies, I want to do a hundred million dollars in revenue.”

“As I said, four million dollars in 23, forty-ish in 24.”

“This new wave of AI companies is growing revenue, like just like actual customer revenue, actual demand, translated through to dollars showing up in bank accounts at like an absolutely unprecedented takeoff rate.”

“We have never yet found a situation where we can't really well monetize all the compute we have. If we had, I think if we had, you know, double the compute, we'd be at double the revenue right now.”

“If we look at our own company data, 54% of our customers contacted us for support in 2024, but they represented 95% of revenue.”

“That has gotten 60,000 dollars in revenue in the last 30 days. 60,000 downloads as well.”

“We're three hundred and fifty million in revenue, and, you know, we're deploying close to that in terms of total spend every year”

“This year, they're gonna do a hundred and sixteen million in revenue. Last year, they did a hundred million in revenue. And their gross margins, he said, I could say all this, are 30%.”

“If we had 10 X more compute, I don't know if we'd have 10 X more revenue, but I don't think it'd be that far.”

“The chip companies are now stepping up and saying, okay, we'll absorb some of the risk. We'll put in the capital to finance this build out where the demand on the other side is not so clear because of course the chip companies also get to book this as revenue.”

“It was probably 15% of our revenue or so, maybe, maybe, actually at that point, probably more. Maybe 20, 25%.”

“Since April, we've done just north of 300,000 in revenue.”

“Is it plausible they could have a hundred and fifty billion dollars of revenue in 2030, and I would argue as an investor that it's more than plausible that they could have a hundred and fifty billion in revenue, but I think it makes it very, very difficult for…”

“Well, above and beyond in this instance means something that drives meaningful revenue or views, let's say on a video. And if it doesn't do those two things, it's actually not meaningful work. It could just be busy work.”

“And you guys are over a hundred million in revenue, right? Just, this is not, you know, just developers kind of kicking the tires. That's correct. Yeah.”

“They have on the other side generated over a hundred fifty billion dollars in revenue in a couple of short months.”

“I think we'll blow through that number, but yeah.”

“So in our first business, we had a day when we lost 75% of our revenue overnight.”

“And 80% of people are in the first category. They're building real complex applications.”

“We grew to a million in revenue relatively quickly. How fast? Like a few months, five months, six months or something.”

“I mean, we bootstrapped the entire business and now across all of our companies, we do almost three hundred million dollars in revenue.”

“Yep, they more than five X revenue from 2001 to 2002, from the eighty six million to four hundred and forty million in revenue.”

“I mean, not always you find revenues. Revenue is the wrong proxy to look for, where the right proxy is to kind of look for validations, right?”

“Just like, you know, the guy from, you know, pdf.ai, you know, I think this guy does, like, at least a million dollars a year in revenue, and it's just chat with any pdf document.”

“We do also have quite a bit of traction on the enterprise side of our business where we're selling directly to schools, and we're selling directly to districts, but the largest portion of our revenue, and we've doubled revenue every year for the last three yea…”

“Anthropic went from one to three billion in revenue in five months. They just announced one to three billion in revenue in five months. Okay. And that is basically all infrastructure plumbing revenue.”

“Despite the fact that we had, we were making a couple million in revenue off the previous business.”

“And I've spoken to other entrepreneurs who also really believed in this model of MBS, but they could not get it going because at some point their investors, you know, started asking, where's the revenue? But if that actually happens, it's already too late beca…”

“You actually want evidence of technical debt affecting revenue, affecting customer outcomes. And you want to compile the evidence because otherwise if you don't have evidence or you just refer it to as like technical debt overall, it is just like, you can go f…”

“So in 2020, the raising canes was doing 1.5 billion in revenue. Four years later, that four and a half billion.”

“If you're going to reshore, you're not going to raise as much revenue, for example, right? Those two things are mutually exclusive, and they're both being trotted out at the same exact time.”

“Pricing strategy should not be to chase revenue, but it should be to attract revenue.”

“I think for our firm in the hardware space, I usually look for companies that like are a bit further along from a revenue perspective, and I think That's just the risk tolerance that I personally have as an investor for hardware.”

“Right now we're looking at three million in revenue next year from the brands we currently have signed and under contract, and we believe we have a very strong pathway to get to sixteen million the following year.”

“About a quarter of a million.”

“And from there, twenty seven million turned into ninety four million in revenue the next year.”

“I tell companies all the time, 10%. That's the number. You have 10% of your revenue that you can spend on all things post sales. And I can debate what's in there or not in terms of the menu we talked about. But ultimately, if you're going to run a business tha…”

“And it's not the key mistake people here, people tend to make here is they assume that it's the number of reps times the quota I give them is the revenue that they produce. That's not really how revenue works. It's the pipeline that you generate. The ability f…”

“If you can tie any of your software or product or service to the revenue people are going to make, your product becomes associated with success.”

“We had a great quarter, Harry. We delivered, you know, clear guidance to thirty eight billion in revenue this year, 12.9 billion in cash flow 32.9% margins.”

“We went from maybe like a few million in revenue to doing like fifty million in revenue within like two or three months.”

“So Facebook had made nine million dollars in revenue in 2005 when they were selling themselves.”

“In 2006, with this Microsoft partnership, that jumps to forty eight million dollars in revenue.”

“And then the next year in 2007, again, I think almost all of this is Microsoft, that goes to a hundred and fifty three million dollars in revenue.”

“Revenues doubling every quarter this year and it's becoming really meaningful now.”

“Once you start to drive revenue, have real metrics, of course, you know, the fundraising pictures shift from being all about the dream, and the vision, and the market opportunity, to being about what has the business done, what is it going to do, and how much …”