The Minutes of Dylan Patel on monetization https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/monetization/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on monetization: 5 verbatim quotes between August 2025 and October 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:18 +0000 Patel says Substack monetization reached hundreds of thousands in months, then millions before he left the pla https://minutesof.com/q/77cdeac6-d89b-4620-b7a3-82e6c9420050/ https://minutesof.com/q/77cdeac6-d89b-4620-b7a3-82e6c9420050/ “It got to a few $100,000 of revenue and I was like, Holy crap. And then I was able to start hiring. And then I left when we hit a few million of revenue.” — Chris Best Substack Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:40 +0000 monetization Patel says Substack revenue alone reached multi-million dollars before expanding beyond the platform. https://minutesof.com/q/f8fc3fd1-9e9d-48ed-aa41-bb5569cee196/ https://minutesof.com/q/f8fc3fd1-9e9d-48ed-aa41-bb5569cee196/ “Now, scaled to be And it has scaled to be multi million dollar Substack revenue. Obviously, built a lot of business beyond that, even that is good enough” — Chris Best Substack Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:40 +0000 monetization Patel explains OpenAI's router will send low-value queries to cheaper models but use expensive compute for hig https://minutesof.com/q/0502aa27-d821-4087-8f4b-18a954c32235/ https://minutesof.com/q/0502aa27-d821-4087-8f4b-18a954c32235/ “if the user asks a low value query like, hey, why is the sky blue? Just route them to mini. The model can answer perfectly fine, and that is a chunk of queries.” — a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization But if they ask, what's the best DUI lawyer near me? All of a sudden, this is like, you're in jail, you have o https://minutesof.com/q/2a7513eb-91b9-4429-a69d-901a47dbe6a2/ https://minutesof.com/q/2a7513eb-91b9-4429-a69d-901a47dbe6a2/ “But if they ask, what's the best DUI lawyer near me? All of a sudden, this is like, you're in jail, you have one shot, you're like, screw it.” — a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization Patel argues OpenAI captures less than 10% of the economic value it creates, pointing to broken value capture https://minutesof.com/q/199ecef6-6d3c-429f-9abf-ec74dca58297/ https://minutesof.com/q/199ecef6-6d3c-429f-9abf-ec74dca58297/ “I legitimately believe OpenAI is not even capturing 10% of the value they've created in the world already just by usage of chat. Right?” — a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization