Token Costs
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
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6 statements about Token Costs, every show
Swulinski: AI SaaS must calculate LTV to CAC on gross profit
“LTV to CAC is usually not enough. You want to probably look at like LTV gross profit, specifically if you're, you have token cost because you're, the biggest cost item is, is usage at the end of the day.”
Calacanis: Using decentralized AI subnets reduced his token costs by 95%
“I all of a sudden experienced, because they gave me an API key, having my token cost go down 95%.”
Lemkin: High-value enterprise AI apps are insensitive to token pricing
“There are so many applications like the ones I described that were not that sensitive to token costs. If you use 204 102,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars of tokens for a month for these, it just doesn't matter. And so there's the open router world where costs are s…”
Andrew Ng: AI Fund ignores initial token costs when prototyping products
“Kind of, frankly, when we build prototype, We routinely just not worry about token costs because the first most important thing is this build a product that users love.”
Ng: Early-stage startups should not worry about API token costs
“My most common advice to developers is to first approximation. Just don't worry about how much tokens cost. Only a small number of startups are lucky enough to have users use so much of your product that the cost of tokens becomes a problem.”