https://minutesof.com/on/monetization/ Everyone on the record about monetization: 11 verbatim quotes from 3 people, July 2019 to October 2025, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:06 +0000 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” — Dylan Patel, Chris Best Substack Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:40 +0000 monetization 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.” — Dylan Patel, Chris Best Substack Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:40 +0000 monetization 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?” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization https://minutesof.com/q/a48588fc-a3d1-48bb-8548-dc1db9674bf2/ https://minutesof.com/q/a48588fc-a3d1-48bb-8548-dc1db9674bf2/ “Etsy. 10% of their traffic now comes from chat, and OpenAI makes nothing off of that. But they very they really, really will soon. Right?” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization 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.” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization 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.” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:26:43 +0000 monetization https://minutesof.com/q/4501a6cf-9ca9-44e6-abfb-22019280aba1/ https://minutesof.com/q/4501a6cf-9ca9-44e6-abfb-22019280aba1/ “Because someone is spending marketing dollars to take that customer to their website and run the transaction with the hopes that they'll come directly back to that website.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:46:51 +0000 monetization https://minutesof.com/q/0fc4cd78-97e8-47f4-8bfb-7bd7d7401803/ https://minutesof.com/q/0fc4cd78-97e8-47f4-8bfb-7bd7d7401803/ “So there's no like Apple's not mad about this deal. They're very positively impacted by it.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:27:40 +0000 monetization https://minutesof.com/q/d174e826-4488-424d-83f4-92deb9631905/ https://minutesof.com/q/d174e826-4488-424d-83f4-92deb9631905/ “I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetize and they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:37:52 +0000 monetization https://minutesof.com/q/4fb4623a-0df9-4d80-861e-5a7d6a6ab8f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/4fb4623a-0df9-4d80-861e-5a7d6a6ab8f1/ “From a monetization perspective, your average mobile phone game monetizes, let's call it, 8 to 10¢ an hour. If it's not average, that's a reasonably well monetized game.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 monetization https://minutesof.com/q/d0c9e906-226e-4de3-b184-02d36d06af59/ https://minutesof.com/q/d0c9e906-226e-4de3-b184-02d36d06af59/ “If you're in an advertising oriented world, you should not try and monetize until you're north of 10,000,000 users.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:30:00 +0000 monetization