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Gurley: AI startup 'take-unders' are structured primarily to evade antitrust regulators
“One, it is almost certainly the case that this, the primary reason that these funky transactions are happening are, let's just call them non-standard is precisely to avoid federal Regulatory scrutiny.”
Gerstner: Generative AI apps show around 40% weekly engagement
“If you look at these generative AI apps, character tops out at about 64%, but if you look at Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, they're about 40%. So much lower engagement you know, than you know, internet consumer apps.”
Gerstner: Altimeter passed on Character.ai due to unsustainable CapEx requirements
“I would say that we looked at both inflection and character. We really liked what we saw at character. We wanted to be involved in it, but it was really hard to underwrite it for exactly this reason. We said the most likely outcome is that they're going to be …”