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5 people · 5 quotes · 26 Nov 2019 to 22 Jul 2026

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    1. Gavin Baker

      Baker argues customer acquisition cost is replacing rent as the primary cost for many businesses.

      “CAC is the new rent. Customer acquisition cost, online ad spend. It's not just replacing other forms of ad spend. For a lot of businesses, it is replacing rent. Storefronts.”

      26 Nov 2019 · Invest Like the Best · 23:26 · source · permalink
    1. David Friedberg

      Friedberg rejects businesses that depend on greenwashing and premium pricing to make consumers feel good about themselves.

      “I'm not a huge believer or a huge fan of businesses that depend on kind of greenwashing and charging a premium to people to make themselves feel better about the decisions that they're making.”

      30 Apr 2023 · Consumer VC with Mike Gelb · 6:48 · source · permalink
    2. Marc Rowan

      Rowan questions whether regional banks can remain in the loan business given higher costs and deposit uncertainty.

      “If you pay more for your deposits, if you have increased costs from operations, from regulation, and all of a sudden you don't know about the stickiness of your deposits, are you in the loan business anymore?”

      1 May 2023 · CNBC Television · 0:49 · source · permalink
    1. Bill Gurley

      Gurley suggests personal memory features could potentially revive paid AI subscription models.

      “If some crazy feature comes along, you know, we've talked about personal memory, maybe that comes back.”

      29 Apr 2024 · BG2 Pod · 7:11 · source · permalink
    1. “Base Ten, like Tuhin's probably made more money off of, you know, Minimax or GLM or DeepSeq than those companies have because he's serving those models at scale. And same with, Linett Fireworks.”

      22 Jul 2026 · RAISE Summit · 13:13 · source · permalink

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