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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.”
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.”
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?”
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.”
“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.”