Jason Lemkin
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Not a single of my slowest growing portfolio companies have said, guys, we've burned through all the tokens.
Not a single of my slowest growing portfolio companies have said, guys, we've burned through all the tokens.
I don't know if it's causation or correlation.
I don't know if it's causation or correlation.
But it was interesting that two of them said that.
But it was interesting that two of them said that.
I think that at a practical level, of course, there has to be cost containment, right?
I think that at a practical level, of course, there has to be cost containment, right?
We're not all startups that just raised 50 million with six people where it doesn't matter, right?
We're not all startups that just raised 50 million with six people where it doesn't matter, right?
There has to be cost containment.
There has to be cost containment.
And folks are massively wasting tokens.
And folks are massively wasting tokens.
They're massively wasting them.
They're massively wasting them.
So it has to come that people have to be more thoughtful with what they build.
So it has to come that people have to be more thoughtful with what they build.
The vast majority of tokens that are used in coding are in QA anyway.
The vast majority of tokens that are used in coding are in QA anyway.