Mike Mignano

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1,346 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

I think it's a risk.

There are two schools of thought playing out right now with regards to token spend.

I think one school of thought, which we're seeing, and I think when I really think about it, probably applies more to the incumbents and the big companies, the sales forces of the world rather than the startups, is that if every employee is just spending like crazy on tokens, the fundamentals of these businesses are going to be in trouble.

They're just too big, right?

There's too many employees at a Salesforce or, I don't know, a Microsoft such that every employee can just have an unlimited token spend budget.

So I think we're going to see a lot of those companies start to constrain their spends.

And we've seen mentions of things like these on X recently.

We've seen Matter, Uber, Microsoft.

Totally.

Yeah.

I think if you're a startup, the calculation probably looks a little bit different.

Your organization is smaller, right?

So you're not going to have a situation where you have 5,000, 10,000, 50,000 employees just spending out of control.

You can more tightly control the spend.

But also, I think as a startup, you need every advantage you can get right now.

And so if I were the CEO of a startup right now, I would actually still be pounding the table to maximize token spend on the right things, right?

Definitely with coding, maybe not with other things.

Just for simple tasks like summarization or operations type work, I'd probably be leveraging Sonnet or something.

But if I'm at a startup and I'm coding, I want to be using the frontier.

I want every advantage I can get against Salesforce.

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