The Minutes of Dylan Patel on ai spending https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/ai-spending/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on ai spending: 3 verbatim quotes from July 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000 Patel's firm spent under $100k annually on AI in November before Claude Code adoption. https://minutesof.com/q/14234ee4-419f-4ded-aed0-58417afb999e/ https://minutesof.com/q/14234ee4-419f-4ded-aed0-58417afb999e/ “What we had was that we had a subscription to every model or we had a subscription to the $200 tier for a chat GPT for every user.” — WisdomTree in Europe Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:16:39 +0000 ai spending Patel's firm's AI spending jumped from under $100k to $11 million annually within months. https://minutesof.com/q/9d9e76b8-70fc-4e7e-91a4-f9c907ff1bc1/ https://minutesof.com/q/9d9e76b8-70fc-4e7e-91a4-f9c907ff1bc1/ “by the end of January, our ARS, right, our our our annual recurring spend had hit $4,000,000. And that's because people were using Cloud Code. Now today, it's about $11,000,000.” — WisdomTree in Europe Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:16:39 +0000 ai spending Patel says their AI spending equals over a third of employee compensation for their 90-person firm. https://minutesof.com/q/6f7b1cde-3481-4cd5-89a6-c38b8939b845/ https://minutesof.com/q/6f7b1cde-3481-4cd5-89a6-c38b8939b845/ “We're spending, you know, more like, you know, more than a third of the spend, you know, employee spend, a third of it is also on top of that is AI.” — WisdomTree in Europe Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:16:39 +0000 ai spending