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Opinion
Sam Lessin: Nobody in AI will make money except infrastructure providers
“I have no idea how anyone's gonna make any money ever. Right. I just don't get it. You know, the only one I think makes money on this is like, I spend a lot on digital ocean because now that my data is more valuable, I use even more data.”
Sam Lessin Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 23:56 AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried? │Claude vs. Grok, Tesla vs Waymo, Google vs Canva · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Sam Lessin says his database costs have far outpaced AI token costs
“The answer is it's Postgres. My Postgres bill is the thing that's gone up the most. It's databases.”
Sam Lessin May 1, 2026 ▶ 42:27 Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial, Google Cloud Surge, Meta’s Blocked Acquisition, Anthropic Winning · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Lessin spends $3,000 monthly on infrastructure for his personal AI bot
“My bot is running about three grand a month of infrastructure, database, App servers, et cetera.”
Sam Lessin Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 6:24 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast
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