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7 people · 20 quotes · 29 Apr 2013 to 21 Aug 2026
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Gurley calls the LTV model a house of cards where numbers can be manipulated.
“Lifetime value model, where people say, as long as we're paying below our lifetime value, cost of capital. But the numbers can be run-in a whole bunch of different ways.”
Baker says investors are running a new metric: days of solvency with zero revenue.
“Days of liquidity with zero revenue has been the acid liquidity test that I think a lot of investors have been working through.”
“And so what really values companies, you know, it's typically a discounted cash flows. And so now all of a sudden, the buy side's asking SaaS companies about net dollar retention, about long term operating margin, about whether their free cash flow is greater or less than their net income, about SBC as a percentage of free cash”
“And so now all of a sudden, the buy side's asking SaaS companies about net dollar retention, about long term operating margin, about whether their free cash flow is greater or less than their net income, about SBC as a percentage of free cash”
Gurley cites Ferriss's metrics: 10 million books sold, 2 million email subscribers, and podcast approaching one billion downloads.
“He sold 10,000,000 books. I got a list here. He got 2,000,000 email subs, over a thousand blog posts, 7,000,000 followers on social media, and his podcast is about to pass a billion downloads.”
Baker proposes a new metric decomposing MFU that he developed the morning of the interview.
“MFU is the most important metric because it gives you all of these advantages and ways to differentiate yourself amongst five people, six people who've trained these GPT core class models.”
Gerstner says NVIDIA generates $4M revenue and $2M profit per employee, unprecedented efficiency.
“You know NVIDIA is in a league of its own really, know, at about 4,000,000 of revenue per employee, about 2,000,000 of profits or free cash flow per employee.”
“OpenAI made a lot of sense to us, you know, they just reported last week over 400,000,000 weekly active users, I think over 700,000,000 monthly users growing fast, etcetera.”
Patel reports his newsletter has two hundred thousand subscribers with five thousand paid, generating under five percent of revenue.
“So the newsletter itself is, like, 200,000. Paid newsletter is, like, I think, like, 200,000 people. Paid newsletter is, like, 5,000. Nice. But then, like, the main”
Baker says ARC AGI scores jumped from 8% to 95% in three months with reasoning models.
“The reason we've had all this progress, maybe we could show like the ARC AGI slide where you had zero to eight over four years, zero to 8% intelligence, and then you went from 8% to 95% in three months when the first reasoning model came out from OpenAI.”
“You know, if we look around the world in five years and we see that American companies, American technology has say 80% market share, it means we did a good job.”
Sacks argues usage and market share, not other metrics, prove success in AI competition.
“I mean, in this case, the way that you know that you're succeeding is through market shares, through usage.”
Sacks recommends tracking federal outlays and receipts as percent of GDP to assess fiscal health.
“This is from Fred, right? And then you wanna look at federal receipts, which is tax receipts as a percent of GDP.”
Patel reports Claude Code doubled to 4% of GitHub commits in January alone, with overall AI coding likely at 10%.
“Just in this month just in January, it went from 4% of or 2% of commits on GitHub to 4% of GitHub commits were done by Cloud Code.”
Gerstner says NVIDIA is one of the most efficient on token per watt per dollar basis.
“Token per watt per dollar. NVIDIA is one of the most efficient in the world.”
Gurley's regulatory capture talk at All In conference received four and a half million views.
“I'd I tested doing it outside my field with a talk I gave at the all in conference on regulatory capture, which had, like, four and a half million views. So if a”
Gurley cites Ferriss has sold 10 million books, has 2 million email subscribers, and podcast approaching a billion downloads.
“He sold 10,000,000 books. I got a list here. He's got 2,000,000 email subs, over a thousand blog posts, 7,000,000 followers on social media, and his podcast is about to pass a billion downloads.”
Vance asserts that demand for metal cutting and machine tools is at century-high levels in the U.S.
“Demand for metal cutting and similar machine tools is hitting its highest levels in a century in The United States Of America.”
Bessent reports OFAC has taken nearly 30 actions against over 300 individuals and entities since early 2025.
“In keeping with President Trump’s pledge to eliminate drug cartels, OFAC has prioritized targeting these and other criminal groups that threaten the welfare of Americans in close coordination with the Homeland Security Task Force, taking nearly 30 actions against over 300 individuals and entities since the beginning of 2025.”
Operation Pacific Viper has seized more than 225,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific as of June 2026.
“As of June 2026, Operation Pacific Viper has seized more than 225,000 pounds (approximately 112 tons) of cocaine in the EPAC.”