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Cahn: ChatGPT Is Now a $3.4 Billion Revenue Business
“Definitely OpenAI. I mean, OpenAI has a brand, it has consumer distribution, it has product market fit with ChatGBT, which is a 3.4 billion dollar revenue business now. I think ChatGBT will definitely be around. Yeah, I think a bunch of the others will too for…”
Cahn: No AI Lab Will Train Frontier Models in the Same Data Center Twice
“No one's ever going to train a frontier model on the same data center twice, because by the time you've trained it, the GPUs will be outdated, and the data center will be too small.”
Cahn: Harvey, Open Evidence, Clay, and Juicebox are reaching $100M ARR rapidly
“Companies that are on that trajectory or have crossed that trajectory are companies like Harvey and Open Evidence and I think, and Clay and Juicebox.”
Cahn: AI power infrastructure was the best trade of 2025
“The best trade of 2025 was the AI power trade.”
Cahn: Sequoia Targets Only One or Two AI Investments Per Year
“I don't need to find 10 investment opportunities this year. I'd like to find one or two investment opportunities a year that I really love.”
David Cahn: Seven Tech Companies Account for 40% of S&P 500
“We're living in an anomalous monopoly era. And it's funny because there's so many comparisons to industrial revolution, and in some ways we're living in this new gilded age. And we have these seven companies, and they represent 40% of the S&P 500, which is jus…”
Cahn: Sequoia will only invest in defense startups every couple years
“I mean, my objective, I probably invested in a dozen AI companies in my career. I hope to invest in 20 more. My objective is not to invest in 20 more defense companies throughout my career. I think it's going to be a very small handful of companies. Maybe we'l…”
Cahn: Tech Giants Will Avoid Full Acquisitions of Major AI Labs
“I think that will probably sustain because it's not really possible to acquire these businesses. Now you can acquire the smaller ones, and we've seen that with Inflection and Adept, you can acquire some of the teams, but it's going to be much more difficult to…”