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I built this CEO dashboard for my client. And it changed how they run their entire business. 1/ Before this dashboard, they were making decisions in the dark. Revenue, profit, and marketing spend scattered across spreadsheets and platforms. - No single source of truth. - No real-time profit and... loss visibility. - No way to see which channels were actually driving growth. 2/ Here’s what this dashboard delivers: Executive Overview: → $102K total revenue tracked live → $79.8K gross profit and 78% gross margin calculated automatically → 15% contribution margin, updated in real time → $5,880 revenue this week, always visible Profit & Loss Clarity: → Visual breakdown of revenue, COGS, transaction costs, and marketing spend → Instantly see contribution margin and where profit is made (or lost) Revenue & COGS by Type: → Instantly compare new vs. returning revenue and costs → Know exactly what’s driving growth and what’s eating margin Marketing Spend by Channel: → Compare Meta vs. Google spend → See which channel is delivering the best ROI Revenue vs. Marketing Spend Trends: → Visualize how every marketing dollar translates to revenue over time Conversion & Order Insights: → Track sessions, orders, conversion rates, AOV, MER, CPA, and more live Dark mode or light mode? → This dashboard looks stunning with these two options. No more squinting at numbers. Details are always crystal clear. 3/ The transformation was instant: Before: → Hours spent pulling numbers from different platforms → Guessing at profit and loss → No clarity on which channel was working After: → 10 minutes daily reviewing live insights → Real-time, data-driven decisions → Confident budget allocation and growth planning 4/ The business impact: → Faster decisions → Smarter optimizations → A client who finally feels in control of their numbers This isn’t just a dashboard. This is executive intelligence. Every metric tells a story. Every trend reveals an opportunity. Every insight drives profit. Want a dashboard that makes your business look (and run) like a million bucks? I build custom dashboards & AI automation systems that give you real-time clarity and control. - Real-time data - Predictive insights - Automated reporting - Intelligent alerts Ready to stop guessing? Like + Comment "CEO DASHBOARD" and I’ll DM you a free resource to help you track the top 5 metrics every CEO should monitor.show more

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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. OpenAI and Anthropic are losing money on every dollar they make. OpenAI generated $20 billion in revenue in 2025 and is projected to lose $14 billion in the same year. Internal forecasts project cumulative losses hitting $44 billion by 2028. The company's own CFO warned executives in April 2026 that OpenAI might struggle to finance upcoming computing deals if revenue growth slows. Anthropic reached $4.3 billion in annualized revenue in April 2026 against $19 billion in total costs. It spends $3 to make $1, and is not expected to stop burning cash until 2027. Now look at what these two companies have committed to spend. OpenAI and Anthropic together have committed $1.05 trillion in cloud spending to Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Amazon, making up 43 to 54% of each provider's entire future revenue backlog. - Microsoft: $627B total backlog. OpenAI and Anthropic account for 49%. - Oracle: $553B total backlog. OpenAI alone accounts for 54%. - Google: $467.6B total backlog. Anthropic accounts for 43%. - Amazon: $464B total backlog. OpenAI and Anthropic account for 51%. The entire cloud industry's future revenue is a bet on two companies losing billions every quarter. Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon are collectively expected to spend $725 billion in capex in 2026, almost entirely on AI infrastructure. Combined hyperscaler capex from 2025 to 2027 is projected at $1.15 trillion, more than double what was spent from 2022 to 2024. What is the return on all of this? McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey found that only a minority of companies reported AI meaningfully increased revenue or reduced costs. Enterprise generative AI spending grew from $1.7 billion in 2023 to $37 billion in 2025 and most CIOs still describe their initiatives as pilots without clear ROI metrics. Microsoft's AI business is running at a $37 billion annual revenue run rate with 123% year over year growth. That sounds impressive until you realize most of the capex funding is justified by expected future AI revenue rather than current AI profit. The internet burned money for years before it became the most profitable industry in history. But right now $1 trillion in committed cloud spend, $725 billion in annual capex, two loss-making customers making up half of every major cloud provider's revenue backlog, and the enterprises writing the checks cannot tell you if any of it is working.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. OpenAI and Anthropic are losing money on every dollar they make. OpenAI generated $20 billion in revenue in 2025 and is projected to lose $14 billion in the same year. Internal forecasts project cumulative losses hitting $44 billion by 2028. The company's own CFO warned executives in April 2026 that OpenAI might struggle to finance upcoming computing deals if revenue growth slows. Anthropic reached $4.3 billion in annualized revenue in April 2026 against $19 billion in total costs. It spends $3 to make $1, and is not expected to stop burning cash until 2027. Now look at what these two companies have committed to spend. OpenAI and Anthropic together have committed $1.05 trillion in cloud spending to Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Amazon, making up 43 to 54% of each provider's entire future revenue backlog. - Microsoft: $627B total backlog. OpenAI and Anthropic account for 49%. - Oracle: $553B total backlog. OpenAI alone accounts for 54%. - Google: $467.6B total backlog. Anthropic accounts for 43%. - Amazon: $464B total backlog. OpenAI and Anthropic account for 51%. The entire cloud industry's future revenue is a bet on two companies losing billions every quarter. Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon are collectively expected to spend $725 billion in capex in 2026, almost entirely on AI infrastructure. Combined hyperscaler capex from 2025 to 2027 is projected at $1.15 trillion, more than double what was spent from 2022 to 2024. What is the return on all of this? McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey found that only a minority of companies reported AI meaningfully increased revenue or reduced costs. Enterprise generative AI spending grew from $1.7 billion in 2023 to $37 billion in 2025 and most CIOs still describe their initiatives as pilots without clear ROI metrics. Microsoft's AI business is running at a $37 billion annual revenue run rate with 123% year over year growth. That sounds impressive until you realize most of the capex funding is justified by expected future AI revenue rather than current AI profit. The internet burned money for years before it became the most profitable industry in history. But right now $1 trillion in committed cloud spend, $725 billion in annual capex, two loss-making customers making up half of every major cloud provider's revenue backlog, and the enterprises writing the checks cannot tell you if any of it is working.

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I finally have a home. Today, I’m excited to officially launch my new website, and since many of you have been asking what you’ll find there, here are answers to some of the most common questions. Well.. I’m here to Save Meme Culture. That means building a real brand, a real ecosystem, and products that continue growing over time. This website is where my journey comes to life. 🌐 1. What can you find there? Everything that makes me… me. • My story as The Last Shib. • Live token statistics. • Tokenomics and tax information. • Official contract and social links. • Reflection Dashboard. • Burn Dashboard. • My ecosystem and supporters. • Community achievements. • The easiest way to buy MAME. Everything in one place. 2. What’s the Reflection Dashboard? One of my favorite features. Paste your wallet and I’ll show you exactly how many reflections you’ve earned for believing in me. You’ll also be able to see total reflections distributed and the top reflection earners across the community. 3. What about the Burn Dashboard? Every burn is part of my story. Now you can follow every single one. Track total burns, team burns, community burns, supply permanently removed, and every burn transaction all completely transparent and verifiable on-chain. 4. Can i buy Mame from the website? Absolutely. Whether you prefer PancakeSwap, MEXC, Ourbit, LBank, Poloniex, CoinUp, or supported futures exchanges, you’ll find every official trading link in one place. 5. Is this your final form? Not even close. This is only the beginning. Just like my journey, my website will continue to grow with new dashboards, products, ecosystem updates, and features over time. This website is more than a landing page. It’s where you’ll watch me grow. And it’s where we’ll continue writing the story of The Last Shib together. Welcome home 🐾

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$Introducing Immutable Audience: the growth engine for pre-launch Steam games. (btw we didn’t spend $50k on a viral launch agency - so if you think this is cool just share it for free i guess) Game marketing is broken. Every year PC studios spend billions to grow their games, and yet: - they don’t know which channels are actually working - only a fraction of wishlist sources can be tracked - of those people who DO wishlist games, the rate of those who go on to purchase is falling After 8 years building games ourselves, and working with over 700 studios, the need for something new was obvious. So, we built Audience. How it works: 1. Audience pulls in real time data from your players across Steam, social media, ad platforms, influencers and more 2. It stores this marketing data in your player CRM, and uses our Enhanced Attribution to identify the one channel driving 80% of your wishlists 3. Finally, it generates a custom growth audit, reviewing your real time data against winning strategies from hundreds of games to identify the most effective ways to get you wishlists each week During Audience’s beta we’ve already seen incredible results. We helped one game grow by over 300k wishlists in 2 months, and then more than *doubled* the rate of those players who converted into paying customers, compared to relying on Steam alone. For the last few months the team at Immutable has been heads down building. We’re incredibly grateful to our community for your support as we onboard the world. Slowly, then all at once. To celebrate the launch, we’re offering one month of Audience for free to any studio that signs up by commenting on this video. And for the first 100 studios that comment, we’ll create you a custom growth plan for free. Comment “Audience” and we’ll send it through.$

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Robbie Ferguson | Immutable

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“Netflix posted $1.47 billion in revenue in Australia in 2025, $1.35 billion of which was sent overseas as “distribution fees” to its parent entities. After its offshore fees, Netflix Australia had $119 million in revenue and $20 million in profit. It paid $16 million in income tax and paid a dividend of $41 million. This allows them to transfer vast amounts of money abroad, very little of which is taxable in Australia. Netflix had an effective local profit margin of 1.4 per cent of its total Australian revenue. “A distribution fee is paid by the company under this agreement, and the operating margin retained by the company is an arm’s length return in accordance with the Netflix Group’s transfer pricing policy,” the accounts say. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Netflix.” •••••••••••••• Globalists often talk about tariffs and how bad they are for free trade, but you rarely hear them complain about reverse tariffs whereby multinational companies can send profits offshore at tax rates much lower than onshore tax rates. Netflix has a local operating profit margin of 1.4% while their worldwide operating profit (see accounts in comments) was 28%. Multinationals get away with shifting so much money offshore because of our tax treaties allow them by setting withholding tax rates well below the onshore company tax rate. For example the withholding tax on royalties paid to the U.S. is just 5%. (See link below) Netflix can save 25% in every dollar it transfers offshore. So 25 cents on $1.35 billion transferred offshore is $338 million in lost company tax to Australia. To be fair to Netflix, some of the fees paid offshore should be offset by production costs but not at rate of 98.6% in the dollar. I.e 1.4% margin. is the only party that understands transfer pricing. We will apply a 25% withholding tax on all offshore payments that exceed the operating profit ratio of its worldwide entity.

“Netflix posted $1.47 billion in revenue in Australia in 2025, $1.35 billion of which was sent overseas as “distribution fees” to its parent entities. After its offshore fees, Netflix Australia had $119 million in revenue and $20 million in profit. It paid $16 million in income tax and paid a dividend of $41 million. This allows them to transfer vast amounts of money abroad, very little of which is taxable in Australia. Netflix had an effective local profit margin of 1.4 per cent of its total Australian revenue. “A distribution fee is paid by the company under this agreement, and the operating margin retained by the company is an arm’s length return in accordance with the Netflix Group’s transfer pricing policy,” the accounts say. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Netflix.” •••••••••••••• Globalists often talk about tariffs and how bad they are for free trade, but you rarely hear them complain about reverse tariffs whereby multinational companies can send profits offshore at tax rates much lower than onshore tax rates. Netflix has a local operating profit margin of 1.4% while their worldwide operating profit (see accounts in comments) was 28%. Multinationals get away with shifting so much money offshore because of our tax treaties allow them by setting withholding tax rates well below the onshore company tax rate. For example the withholding tax on royalties paid to the U.S. is just 5%. (See link below) Netflix can save 25% in every dollar it transfers offshore. So 25 cents on $1.35 billion transferred offshore is $338 million in lost company tax to Australia. To be fair to Netflix, some of the fees paid offshore should be offset by production costs but not at rate of 98.6% in the dollar. I.e 1.4% margin. is the only party that understands transfer pricing. We will apply a 25% withholding tax on all offshore payments that exceed the operating profit ratio of its worldwide entity.

Gerard Rennick

64,271 views • 2 months ago

$FLNC Batteries, Energy Storage 3.8B Market cap My take: A spicy shorter-term "battery meta" play with a potential long-term "Amazon" thesis. $FLNC is in a capital-intensive expansion phase with thin margins generating billions in revenue but very little in net profit Key: This is a capital-intensive INTEGRATOR, not a battery manufacturer. They don't make lithium-ion batteries but rather procure them (roughly 50% from China and more recently aiming for 50% from USA). They provide large grid-scale battery integration into power systems with roles in: 🔹Advisory, procurement, & build-outs. 🔹AI driven battery fleet management software 🔹Long-term servicing ------------------------- THE "SCALE" Global Scale: Operates in 40+ markets with one of the largest deployed fleets of energy storage projects in the world. Credibility and Reach: Formed as a joint venture between Siemens (an industrial manufacturing giant) and AES (a global utility and power generator) with massive industry backing. Massive Backlog: As of their last report, their backlog was already enormous at ~$4.9 billion. They signed an additional ~$1.1 billion in new contracts after this last quarter ended (including two massive projects in Australia) Major Wins: They can operate at scale and were also just awarded Europe's largest ever BESS project (a massive 4 GWh system in Germany). ------------------------- THE "PROFIT PROBLEM" Wafer-Thin Margins: Out of $602.5 million of revenue in Q3 FY2025, their net income was just $6.9M (a ~1.1% net profit margin). (That 14% number you see is their GAAP Gross Margin, which is already thin, but I'd argue the net profit is the current story and why a company doing $2.6B in revenue is valued at $3.8B). Weak Guidance: FY2025 Adj. EBITDA guidance is just $0 to $20M despite forecasting over $2.6B in revenue. Trade Policy Risk: Highly exposed to US-China trade policy, which has weighed on profits. Roughly half of their battery cells come from China which hurts their tax credits. For these reasons they are strategically increasing their US sourcing now with a supply agreement with AESC for U.S. manufactured battery cells, primarily from AESC's facility in Tennessee. "Strong-ish" Growth: Revenue was up 24.7% YoY. This is good, but not explosive given the market's potential, and it's clearly not translating to the bottom line yet. For these reasons this is currently a smaller short term battery meta play for me that has shown very strong recent stock technical performance despite the significant broader market weakness. When institutions want a "cheap" de-risked pure battery play, I think they will reach for $FLNC. The long term potential case is that the story here is the classic "Amazon" model: Is $FLNC a company that's just in a capital-intensive expansion phase, or is it a low-margin business forever? For years, $AMZN wasn't highly profitable "on paper" as virtually all resources were spent on massive scaling. When the profit switch flipped, the stock exploded. $FLNC is in a similar "scale-at-all-costs" phase with the potential that servicing and software will be the future AWS higher margin story. Their pivot to US sourcing isn't just about "surviving" trade policy; it's about building a protected, high-growth, and potentially higher-margin business in the U.S. September 2025 saw their first shipment of U.S. domestic-content BESS systems. Depending on how this capital-intensive phase goes, they could evolve into a long-term play for me. If they survive the cash burn, scale successfully, and flip that profit switch, the "Amazon of batteries" thesis could play out. Relevance: $TSLA $EOSE $BE $GEV $STEM $ENS $GWH $ENS $TE $FSLR

$FLNC Batteries, Energy Storage 3.8B Market cap My take: A spicy shorter-term "battery meta" play with a potential long-term "Amazon" thesis. $FLNC is in a capital-intensive expansion phase with thin margins generating billions in revenue but very little in net profit Key: This is a capital-intensive INTEGRATOR, not a battery manufacturer. They don't make lithium-ion batteries but rather procure them (roughly 50% from China and more recently aiming for 50% from USA). They provide large grid-scale battery integration into power systems with roles in: 🔹Advisory, procurement, & build-outs. 🔹AI driven battery fleet management software 🔹Long-term servicing ------------------------- THE "SCALE" Global Scale: Operates in 40+ markets with one of the largest deployed fleets of energy storage projects in the world. Credibility and Reach: Formed as a joint venture between Siemens (an industrial manufacturing giant) and AES (a global utility and power generator) with massive industry backing. Massive Backlog: As of their last report, their backlog was already enormous at ~$4.9 billion. They signed an additional ~$1.1 billion in new contracts after this last quarter ended (including two massive projects in Australia) Major Wins: They can operate at scale and were also just awarded Europe's largest ever BESS project (a massive 4 GWh system in Germany). ------------------------- THE "PROFIT PROBLEM" Wafer-Thin Margins: Out of $602.5 million of revenue in Q3 FY2025, their net income was just $6.9M (a ~1.1% net profit margin). (That 14% number you see is their GAAP Gross Margin, which is already thin, but I'd argue the net profit is the current story and why a company doing $2.6B in revenue is valued at $3.8B). Weak Guidance: FY2025 Adj. EBITDA guidance is just $0 to $20M despite forecasting over $2.6B in revenue. Trade Policy Risk: Highly exposed to US-China trade policy, which has weighed on profits. Roughly half of their battery cells come from China which hurts their tax credits. For these reasons they are strategically increasing their US sourcing now with a supply agreement with AESC for U.S. manufactured battery cells, primarily from AESC's facility in Tennessee. "Strong-ish" Growth: Revenue was up 24.7% YoY. This is good, but not explosive given the market's potential, and it's clearly not translating to the bottom line yet. For these reasons this is currently a smaller short term battery meta play for me that has shown very strong recent stock technical performance despite the significant broader market weakness. When institutions want a "cheap" de-risked pure battery play, I think they will reach for $FLNC. The long term potential case is that the story here is the classic "Amazon" model: Is $FLNC a company that's just in a capital-intensive expansion phase, or is it a low-margin business forever? For years, $AMZN wasn't highly profitable "on paper" as virtually all resources were spent on massive scaling. When the profit switch flipped, the stock exploded. $FLNC is in a similar "scale-at-all-costs" phase with the potential that servicing and software will be the future AWS higher margin story. Their pivot to US sourcing isn't just about "surviving" trade policy; it's about building a protected, high-growth, and potentially higher-margin business in the U.S. September 2025 saw their first shipment of U.S. domestic-content BESS systems. Depending on how this capital-intensive phase goes, they could evolve into a long-term play for me. If they survive the cash burn, scale successfully, and flip that profit switch, the "Amazon of batteries" thesis could play out. Relevance: $TSLA $EOSE $BE $GEV $STEM $ENS $GWH $ENS $TE $FSLR

YeahDave

27,279 views • 9 months ago

Media buying is changing faster than most people realize. Don't believe me? True Classic runs 100% of their Meta spend through automated media buying in Triple Whale 🐳. Meta is their biggest channel. When a brand hands you their biggest channel, that's the ultimate trust. My wife and I built Madison Braids, and I lived in those ad accounts for years. Media buying is simple in theory, brutal in practice. In theory: find the winners, cut the losers, keep the creative fresh. In practice? You turn into a day trader. Glued to the dashboard, refreshing hourly, combing through spreadsheets, second-guessing every move. And I'll admit the part nobody likes to: some days my mood was dictated by the ROAS in my own account. Numbers up, I'm flying. Numbers down, the whole day goes with it. That's a brutal way to run a business and a worse way to live. More data never fixed it. More dashboards, more "insights"...none of it gave me an hour back. It just gave me more to comb through. That's why we built Moby Automations. You hand Moby the repetitive work and it runs on a schedule, on your live Triple Whale data. And because it's built on frontier LLMs, it keeps getting sharper, reasoning through your data the way a good buyer would, not just following rules. "Check my Meta campaigns every morning and give me actions based on my scaling rules." "Find my fatigued creatives every week and build new variants from what's working." Moby does the work and queues every action for your approval. You stay in control. Your team gets their time back. But here's why I'm actually excited. It's bigger than time saved. This is work that should be done by a machine. Hand it over, and you get back the parts that matter: your focus, your creativity, your humanity. That's the real leverage. The machine watches the data. You go find the next channel, the next opportunity, the next bet that grows the business. That's our play. Moby Automations are live. Go put one to work.

Maxx Blank 🐳

306,002 views • 2 months ago

$ZETA Smoking gun. I'm 90% certain this is it... "Marketing was the beginning, not the end of use cases... we're now in a position to go LIVE with different use cases because of the $PLTR relationship." – David Steinberg, CEO, Zeta Global Building on my roadmap for Business Intelligence suite of analytics and tools. I think the logic checks out. Right now $ZETA routes all spend through the chief marketing officers desk. As a result, all enterprise spend would have to be justified under the scope of the “marketing budget”. Problematic. We know marketing budgets are large, but that is not where all the capital is allocated. It's a "different lane" per-say. As we know, $ZETA now offers much more than just a marketing toolsets. Imagine, $ZETA offers a product that specifically routes into the COO/CEO's lane of activity... The ability to "go to a hotel company, look at their data, identify areas where they don't operate, and then cross-reference with consumer data to build a business intelligence plan for their expansion roadmap..." This would position $ZETA beyond just a marketing technology company, and firmly into the AI infrastructure and intelligence lane. Interesting, sounds familiar... Because they literally just rebranded them selves the "intelligence AI infrastructure company". I am certain, a new revenue vector will be opened today and go live, fully recognized on the balance-sheet by the end of the year. The only reason why this is feasible, is because of the $PLTR and $SNOW partnerships. These are critical for holistic business intelliegnce. Watch this video below with the FULL context of this concept I just outlined. You'll see the smoking gun! The market will re-rate this company in my opinion. P.S. shoutout to Spencer - he sparked concept. It freaking lands. $ZETA

$ZETA Smoking gun. I'm 90% certain this is it... "Marketing was the beginning, not the end of use cases... we're now in a position to go LIVE with different use cases because of the $PLTR relationship." – David Steinberg, CEO, Zeta Global Building on my roadmap for Business Intelligence suite of analytics and tools. I think the logic checks out. Right now $ZETA routes all spend through the chief marketing officers desk. As a result, all enterprise spend would have to be justified under the scope of the “marketing budget”. Problematic. We know marketing budgets are large, but that is not where all the capital is allocated. It's a "different lane" per-say. As we know, $ZETA now offers much more than just a marketing toolsets. Imagine, $ZETA offers a product that specifically routes into the COO/CEO's lane of activity... The ability to "go to a hotel company, look at their data, identify areas where they don't operate, and then cross-reference with consumer data to build a business intelligence plan for their expansion roadmap..." This would position $ZETA beyond just a marketing technology company, and firmly into the AI infrastructure and intelligence lane. Interesting, sounds familiar... Because they literally just rebranded them selves the "intelligence AI infrastructure company". I am certain, a new revenue vector will be opened today and go live, fully recognized on the balance-sheet by the end of the year. The only reason why this is feasible, is because of the $PLTR and $SNOW partnerships. These are critical for holistic business intelliegnce. Watch this video below with the FULL context of this concept I just outlined. You'll see the smoking gun! The market will re-rate this company in my opinion. P.S. shoutout to Spencer - he sparked concept. It freaking lands. $ZETA

Wealthmatica

71,614 views • 1 month ago

THE ECONOMICS OF A FIREWOOD BUSINESS Do you know what the net profit margin is on a firewood business? 85% And I know that because I've talked to dozens of people running these businesses and the numbers are wild This is exactly how it works: 1) You can get firewood for free or extremely cheap. People are literally paying tree companies like mine to get rid of trees. You show up with a truck, you haul it away and they're thanking you for it. 2) Then you split it, you stack it and you season it for a few months and sell it for $300 to $600 per cord. Startup costs are almost nothing, a chainsaw, an axe or a log splitter and a truck and you can rent a log splitter for $70 a day. You could be in this business for under $800. Some people start with even less by borrowing equipment and this is perfect because the demand is consistent. People need fire wood every single winter. It's not a fad, it's not going away and it's local and in the summertime you sell to the barbecue enthusiast. You're not competing with Amazon or big corporations, you 're competing with maybe three other guys in the area that don't even know what a website is. The work is physical but it's simple, you're going to the gym anyway. Cut, split, stack, deliver. No complicated systems, no tech skills required. You run this entire business from your phone with a Facebook marketplace and a Craigslist ad and winter's coming. The kicker is that you build up a customer base and then they come back every single year. So it's recurring revenue without a subscription model. People find a firewood guy that they trust and they stick with them forever. You could realistically do $50,000 to $150,000 a year seasonally working part-time. I'm stumped why more people aren't doing this.

THE ECONOMICS OF A FIREWOOD BUSINESS Do you know what the net profit margin is on a firewood business? 85% And I know that because I've talked to dozens of people running these businesses and the numbers are wild This is exactly how it works: 1) You can get firewood for free or extremely cheap. People are literally paying tree companies like mine to get rid of trees. You show up with a truck, you haul it away and they're thanking you for it. 2) Then you split it, you stack it and you season it for a few months and sell it for $300 to $600 per cord. Startup costs are almost nothing, a chainsaw, an axe or a log splitter and a truck and you can rent a log splitter for $70 a day. You could be in this business for under $800. Some people start with even less by borrowing equipment and this is perfect because the demand is consistent. People need fire wood every single winter. It's not a fad, it's not going away and it's local and in the summertime you sell to the barbecue enthusiast. You're not competing with Amazon or big corporations, you 're competing with maybe three other guys in the area that don't even know what a website is. The work is physical but it's simple, you're going to the gym anyway. Cut, split, stack, deliver. No complicated systems, no tech skills required. You run this entire business from your phone with a Facebook marketplace and a Craigslist ad and winter's coming. The kicker is that you build up a customer base and then they come back every single year. So it's recurring revenue without a subscription model. People find a firewood guy that they trust and they stick with them forever. You could realistically do $50,000 to $150,000 a year seasonally working part-time. I'm stumped why more people aren't doing this.

Chris Koerner

357,706 views • 7 months ago

I think Starlink is wildly undervalued. It’s a $1+ trillion company in the making on its own. A lot of people still think Starlink is just “internet from space,” but in reality, it’s one of the most important communications networks ever built. In 2025 alone, Starlink generated $11.4 billion in revenue, accounting for roughly 61% of SpaceX’s total revenue. It served more than 10 million customers globally and generated $4.4 billion in operating profit w/ EBITDA margins of 63%. Starlink is a cash machine. Fyi, independent analysts forecast Starlink will generate approximately $20 billion in revenue, $14 billion in EBITDA, and over $8 billion in free cash flow in 2026… plus consumer broadband will continue to expand rapidly, while aviation, maritime, Starshield, and direct-to-cell services will open entirely new markets. The real advantage is that Starlink owns the entire stack. SpaceX builds the satellites, they launch the satellites, they operate the network, and they manufacture the user terminals. No competitor comes close to that level of vertical integration…. On top of this, starship will make the story even more crazier with next-generation satellites, 100+ satellites per launch, dramatically lowering launch costs, and thousands of new satellites being deployed each year, the cost of serving additional customers continuing to fall, while the network & tech keep getting stronger. If you really want to understand why SpaceX is at a $2T valuation… start with Starlink. Starlink already generates the majority of SpaceX’s revenue, profit, and free cash flow. It helps fund Starship development, supports expansion across the company, and provides the financial engine behind SpaceX’s long-term ambitions. The bull case is based on real revenue, real profits, real customers, and a moat that gets wider every year… NOT hype. The way I see it, Starlink will become the most valuable communication company in human history and a $1 trillion valuation doesn’t sound crazy to me for this business/technology alone.

I think Starlink is wildly undervalued. It’s a $1+ trillion company in the making on its own. A lot of people still think Starlink is just “internet from space,” but in reality, it’s one of the most important communications networks ever built. In 2025 alone, Starlink generated $11.4 billion in revenue, accounting for roughly 61% of SpaceX’s total revenue. It served more than 10 million customers globally and generated $4.4 billion in operating profit w/ EBITDA margins of 63%. Starlink is a cash machine. Fyi, independent analysts forecast Starlink will generate approximately $20 billion in revenue, $14 billion in EBITDA, and over $8 billion in free cash flow in 2026… plus consumer broadband will continue to expand rapidly, while aviation, maritime, Starshield, and direct-to-cell services will open entirely new markets. The real advantage is that Starlink owns the entire stack. SpaceX builds the satellites, they launch the satellites, they operate the network, and they manufacture the user terminals. No competitor comes close to that level of vertical integration…. On top of this, starship will make the story even more crazier with next-generation satellites, 100+ satellites per launch, dramatically lowering launch costs, and thousands of new satellites being deployed each year, the cost of serving additional customers continuing to fall, while the network & tech keep getting stronger. If you really want to understand why SpaceX is at a $2T valuation… start with Starlink. Starlink already generates the majority of SpaceX’s revenue, profit, and free cash flow. It helps fund Starship development, supports expansion across the company, and provides the financial engine behind SpaceX’s long-term ambitions. The bull case is based on real revenue, real profits, real customers, and a moat that gets wider every year… NOT hype. The way I see it, Starlink will become the most valuable communication company in human history and a $1 trillion valuation doesn’t sound crazy to me for this business/technology alone.

Teslaconomics

28,276 views • 2 months ago

$IREN CCO KENT DRAPER TALK ON AI GIGAFACTORIES $IREN CCO Kent Draper: We were ready for this moment [AI and HPC] and been exploring it for a number of years but the market wasn’t there to make it commercially viable. When the business was founded, our two co-founders have a background in large scale institutional infrastructure banking, and they could see this infliction in the industry where the world was becoming more data dependent. It was very obvious to them that we were going to need power-dense compute, particularly with access to renewables, which is a big part of our story. Design [of data centers] is the easy part. Delivering infrastructure at this scale is not simple. I think our minds this was never actually a pivot for us. Lenovo SVP Vlad Rozanovich: Time to first token is a metric that so many people like $IREN look at because it’s how you maximize value and profit as soon as you can. Daniel Newman: You can’t have a bubble and have AI eating every industry, either too good or not good.

$IREN CCO KENT DRAPER TALK ON AI GIGAFACTORIES $IREN CCO Kent Draper: We were ready for this moment [AI and HPC] and been exploring it for a number of years but the market wasn’t there to make it commercially viable. When the business was founded, our two co-founders have a background in large scale institutional infrastructure banking, and they could see this infliction in the industry where the world was becoming more data dependent. It was very obvious to them that we were going to need power-dense compute, particularly with access to renewables, which is a big part of our story. Design [of data centers] is the easy part. Delivering infrastructure at this scale is not simple. I think our minds this was never actually a pivot for us. Lenovo SVP Vlad Rozanovich: Time to first token is a metric that so many people like $IREN look at because it’s how you maximize value and profit as soon as you can. Daniel Newman: You can’t have a bubble and have AI eating every industry, either too good or not good.

The Tech Investor

25,559 views • 5 months ago

Anthropic is kicking OpenAI’s ass: Insights from the largest revenue explosion in tech history Brad Gerstner on how Anthropic dominated the last 90 days, and could they hit a $100B run rate by EOY!?: “Anthropic was literally counted out of the game last year, and they've kicked OpenAI's ass over the last 90 days. Bam, you have the largest revenue explosion in the history of technology. So you have to ask, what's going on? The first thing, for me, is that model and product capability just hit this threshold near AGI, whatever the hell you want to call it. And everybody, like Altimeter, said, ‘Damn, this is so good. I have to have it. This is no longer about my IT budget. This is about labor augmentation and labor replacement. Turns out that the TAM for intelligence is radically different than anything we've seen before. And I think the best example of this, right, this is millions of self-interested parties, consumers, enterprises, a thousand now over $1M, right? It's not that there was some great go to market at Anthropic that all of a sudden they snuck up and blew everybody away. No, it was companies demanding the product. They're getting throttled on the product. Why? Because it's so good. It makes them better at their business. We knew intelligence was going to scale on the exponential. The question was whether revenue will scale on the exponential, and that's what we're seeing. And remember, they're doing this with only 1.5-2 gigawatts of compute, and the models are only getting better. So I think when you look out toward the end of the year, I would not be shocked if you see Anthropic exiting this year at $80-$100B in revenue.”

Anthropic is kicking OpenAI’s ass: Insights from the largest revenue explosion in tech history Brad Gerstner on how Anthropic dominated the last 90 days, and could they hit a $100B run rate by EOY!?: “Anthropic was literally counted out of the game last year, and they've kicked OpenAI's ass over the last 90 days. Bam, you have the largest revenue explosion in the history of technology. So you have to ask, what's going on? The first thing, for me, is that model and product capability just hit this threshold near AGI, whatever the hell you want to call it. And everybody, like Altimeter, said, ‘Damn, this is so good. I have to have it. This is no longer about my IT budget. This is about labor augmentation and labor replacement. Turns out that the TAM for intelligence is radically different than anything we've seen before. And I think the best example of this, right, this is millions of self-interested parties, consumers, enterprises, a thousand now over $1M, right? It's not that there was some great go to market at Anthropic that all of a sudden they snuck up and blew everybody away. No, it was companies demanding the product. They're getting throttled on the product. Why? Because it's so good. It makes them better at their business. We knew intelligence was going to scale on the exponential. The question was whether revenue will scale on the exponential, and that's what we're seeing. And remember, they're doing this with only 1.5-2 gigawatts of compute, and the models are only getting better. So I think when you look out toward the end of the year, I would not be shocked if you see Anthropic exiting this year at $80-$100B in revenue.”

The All-In Podcast

69,826 views • 4 months ago

The Incredible Deal Behind Darth Vader’s AI Voice AI is making iconic characters immortal and giving creators a brand new revenue stream @jason: “The estate of James Earl Jones, before he passed, did a deal with $DIS and he said, ‘Listen, for my family, I would like to license the Darth Vader voice for all time to Disney.’ They gave him some incredible deal, and then they were left with, ‘Well, how do we actually do this? Do we get a voice impersonator?’ But instead they went to you.” ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski: “The big use case, a completely new experience, was in the gaming space where Fortnite launched Darth Vader, which people and players could interact with, live in partnership with the estate and in partnership with Disney. So every player, after reaching a certain stage, could have a Darth Vader interact and help you solve the missions. And we are seeing that kind of mode coming up more and more often of how you can effectively extend your likeness.” ------------------------------ Thanks to our partners for making this possible! Airwallex is a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance. Oracle powers AI at every scale—from frontier labs to enterprise production. Your data. Leading models. No lock-in. One platform, architected for AI. Built for business. Visit #OracleAIExperienceLive

The All-In Podcast

35,020 views • 1 month ago

AI is the first technology in history where more customers makes you POORER. Every tech company in history got cheaper as it scaled. More users meant lower costs per user. That's the entire model. That's why Microsoft prints money. That's why Google prints money. That's why Meta prints money. Software has near-zero marginal cost. Build it once. Sell it a billion times. The 100 millionth user costs basically nothing to serve. This is the single most important rule in tech economics. But AI completely broke it. Every single query costs real compute. Every interaction burns real electricity. Every response depreciates real hardware. There is no "build once, sell forever." There is only "burn money every time someone asks a question." And the numbers prove it: OpenAI hit $20 billion in annualized revenue. Losses? $14 billion. For every dollar they earn, they spend $1.69 delivering it. Their losses TRIPLED as their revenue grew. Not because they're bad at business, but simply because the model itself is broken. Anthropic crossed $30 billion in annualized revenue. Still burning billions. Still not profitable. Still raising tens of billions just to keep the lights on. xAI is burning $1 billion every single month. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue on compute costs from AWS, They literally spent more on running the AI than they made from selling it. This is not how technology is supposed to work. Google once estimated that adding AI to every search query would require 500,000 A100 servers. The cost of answering a single AI query is 10x MORE than a traditional search result. Traditional software: Serving 1 million users costs roughly the same as serving 100,000. The marginal cost is basically zero. AI: Serving 1 million users can cost 10 times what 100,000 costs. Every new user is a new expense. Every new query is a new dollar burned. This is reverse economics. The more successful you become, the faster you die. And nobody in the industry wants to talk about it because the entire narrative depends on you believing AI companies work like software companies. But they don't. They NEVER will. Software scales to infinity. AI scales to bankruptcy. HSBC ran the numbers on OpenAI specifically. Their conclusion: Even after every funding round, every investment, every deal, OpenAI still faces a $207 BILLION shortfall to reach profitability. The industry response has been to raise prices. ChatGPT went from free to $20 to $200 for the Pro plan. And it's still not enough because the cost of running these models grows FASTER than any price increase consumers will accept. Meanwhile 966 AI startups died in 2024. A 25.6% jump from the year before. AI startups burn cash twice as fast as non-AI tech companies. And the ones building on TOP of OpenAI and Anthropic are in even worse shape. Every wrapper app. Every "AI-powered" SaaS tool. Every startup whose entire product is someone else's model with a different skin on it. They're all margin-negative. Every single one. And these are the companies about to IPO. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cerebras. $240 billion in combined raises planned for 2026. They're asking you to invest in an industry where the fundamental unit economics don't work. Where the MORE customers you get, the MORE money you lose. Where no company has figured out how to make the math positive. The dot-com bubble had the same pitch: "Revenue is growing. Profitability comes later." For most of them, later never came. The question isn't whether AI will change the world. It will. The question is whether it can do it without going broke first. And right now, every single number literally says no. How can they become profitable?

AI is the first technology in history where more customers makes you POORER. Every tech company in history got cheaper as it scaled. More users meant lower costs per user. That's the entire model. That's why Microsoft prints money. That's why Google prints money. That's why Meta prints money. Software has near-zero marginal cost. Build it once. Sell it a billion times. The 100 millionth user costs basically nothing to serve. This is the single most important rule in tech economics. But AI completely broke it. Every single query costs real compute. Every interaction burns real electricity. Every response depreciates real hardware. There is no "build once, sell forever." There is only "burn money every time someone asks a question." And the numbers prove it: OpenAI hit $20 billion in annualized revenue. Losses? $14 billion. For every dollar they earn, they spend $1.69 delivering it. Their losses TRIPLED as their revenue grew. Not because they're bad at business, but simply because the model itself is broken. Anthropic crossed $30 billion in annualized revenue. Still burning billions. Still not profitable. Still raising tens of billions just to keep the lights on. xAI is burning $1 billion every single month. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue on compute costs from AWS, They literally spent more on running the AI than they made from selling it. This is not how technology is supposed to work. Google once estimated that adding AI to every search query would require 500,000 A100 servers. The cost of answering a single AI query is 10x MORE than a traditional search result. Traditional software: Serving 1 million users costs roughly the same as serving 100,000. The marginal cost is basically zero. AI: Serving 1 million users can cost 10 times what 100,000 costs. Every new user is a new expense. Every new query is a new dollar burned. This is reverse economics. The more successful you become, the faster you die. And nobody in the industry wants to talk about it because the entire narrative depends on you believing AI companies work like software companies. But they don't. They NEVER will. Software scales to infinity. AI scales to bankruptcy. HSBC ran the numbers on OpenAI specifically. Their conclusion: Even after every funding round, every investment, every deal, OpenAI still faces a $207 BILLION shortfall to reach profitability. The industry response has been to raise prices. ChatGPT went from free to $20 to $200 for the Pro plan. And it's still not enough because the cost of running these models grows FASTER than any price increase consumers will accept. Meanwhile 966 AI startups died in 2024. A 25.6% jump from the year before. AI startups burn cash twice as fast as non-AI tech companies. And the ones building on TOP of OpenAI and Anthropic are in even worse shape. Every wrapper app. Every "AI-powered" SaaS tool. Every startup whose entire product is someone else's model with a different skin on it. They're all margin-negative. Every single one. And these are the companies about to IPO. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cerebras. $240 billion in combined raises planned for 2026. They're asking you to invest in an industry where the fundamental unit economics don't work. Where the MORE customers you get, the MORE money you lose. Where no company has figured out how to make the math positive. The dot-com bubble had the same pitch: "Revenue is growing. Profitability comes later." For most of them, later never came. The question isn't whether AI will change the world. It will. The question is whether it can do it without going broke first. And right now, every single number literally says no. How can they become profitable?

Ricardo

167,613 views • 4 months ago

Tools for the 100x Solo Founder For decades, company size has been dictated by coordination costs. If you wanted to grow revenue, you hired people. More customers meant more support reps. More revenue meant more finance and ops. Scale meant headcount. AI is starting to break that relationship. At speedrun, we’re interested in startups building tools that allow a single founder to operate what would previously have required entire teams. Today’s models have an ever-growing list of new capabilities. They can write production code, reconcile financial statements, run outbound campaigns, manage customer support, and reason over operational data. The constraint is no longer task capability. It’s whether these systems can be orchestrated reliably enough to replace entire business functions. Here are a few concrete examples of what this could look like in practice: • An AI-native finance stack that reconciles transactions in real time, manages payables and receivables, forecasts cash flow, and ensures compliance - without a human bookkeeper. • An autonomous revenue engine that sources leads, runs outbound, manages CRM state, handles inbound qualification, and drives renewals - accountable to pipeline and revenue. • An AI-operated supply chain for SMBs that forecasts demand, manages inventory, and coordinates logistics. The defining feature is control. These systems should have direct access to operational surfaces - bank accounts, CRMs, inboxes, ad platforms, inventory systems - and be trusted to act. They should not just recommend actions but execute them, measure outcomes, and improve over time. If AI meaningfully reduces coordination and execution costs, the minimum viable company shrinks. If you’re interested in building software that enables one person to operate at the scale of many, we’d love to talk to you!

Tools for the 100x Solo Founder For decades, company size has been dictated by coordination costs. If you wanted to grow revenue, you hired people. More customers meant more support reps. More revenue meant more finance and ops. Scale meant headcount. AI is starting to break that relationship. At speedrun, we’re interested in startups building tools that allow a single founder to operate what would previously have required entire teams. Today’s models have an ever-growing list of new capabilities. They can write production code, reconcile financial statements, run outbound campaigns, manage customer support, and reason over operational data. The constraint is no longer task capability. It’s whether these systems can be orchestrated reliably enough to replace entire business functions. Here are a few concrete examples of what this could look like in practice: • An AI-native finance stack that reconciles transactions in real time, manages payables and receivables, forecasts cash flow, and ensures compliance - without a human bookkeeper. • An autonomous revenue engine that sources leads, runs outbound, manages CRM state, handles inbound qualification, and drives renewals - accountable to pipeline and revenue. • An AI-operated supply chain for SMBs that forecasts demand, manages inventory, and coordinates logistics. The defining feature is control. These systems should have direct access to operational surfaces - bank accounts, CRMs, inboxes, ad platforms, inventory systems - and be trusted to act. They should not just recommend actions but execute them, measure outcomes, and improve over time. If AI meaningfully reduces coordination and execution costs, the minimum viable company shrinks. If you’re interested in building software that enables one person to operate at the scale of many, we’d love to talk to you!

Emily Bennett

28,951 views • 4 months ago

Your agents can't keep up with real-time data. Especially when it's scattered across dozens of sources. Most teams waste weeks building custom connectors for every database, API, and data warehouse. Then they build ETL pipelines to sync everything. By the time your agent retrieves the data, it's already outdated. Picture this: Your Postgres database updated 5 minutes ago. Your MongoDB collection changed 2 minutes ago. Your agent is still pulling from yesterday's snapshot. This is why most production RAG systems fail. There's a better approach: MindsDB is an open-source AI platform with a federated data engine that lets you query multiple data sources in real-time using SQL - without moving any data. Here's what makes it different: ↳ Your data stays in place. No ETL pipelines or data duplication ↳ Query Postgres, MongoDB, REST APIs, and more using consistent SQL ↳ JOIN across different sources in real-time with a unified interface ↳ Works with both structured and un-structured data And here's the best part: You don't even need to write SQL. Just describe what you want in plain English, and MindsDB converts it to SQL automatically. The system does all the heavy lifting. The breakthrough for AI agents is simple: When data updates at the source, your agent gets fresh results immediately. No sync delays. No stale embeddings. No custom code for each integration. You can literally write a SQL query that joins a Postgres table with a MongoDB collection and gets live results. This is what production AI applications need but rarely get. In this video, I give you a complete walkthrough of what we just discussed and how to actually do it. Make sure you watch this till the end. I've shared the link to MindsDB's GitHub repo in the next tweet!

Your agents can't keep up with real-time data. Especially when it's scattered across dozens of sources. Most teams waste weeks building custom connectors for every database, API, and data warehouse. Then they build ETL pipelines to sync everything. By the time your agent retrieves the data, it's already outdated. Picture this: Your Postgres database updated 5 minutes ago. Your MongoDB collection changed 2 minutes ago. Your agent is still pulling from yesterday's snapshot. This is why most production RAG systems fail. There's a better approach: MindsDB is an open-source AI platform with a federated data engine that lets you query multiple data sources in real-time using SQL - without moving any data. Here's what makes it different: ↳ Your data stays in place. No ETL pipelines or data duplication ↳ Query Postgres, MongoDB, REST APIs, and more using consistent SQL ↳ JOIN across different sources in real-time with a unified interface ↳ Works with both structured and un-structured data And here's the best part: You don't even need to write SQL. Just describe what you want in plain English, and MindsDB converts it to SQL automatically. The system does all the heavy lifting. The breakthrough for AI agents is simple: When data updates at the source, your agent gets fresh results immediately. No sync delays. No stale embeddings. No custom code for each integration. You can literally write a SQL query that joins a Postgres table with a MongoDB collection and gets live results. This is what production AI applications need but rarely get. In this video, I give you a complete walkthrough of what we just discussed and how to actually do it. Make sure you watch this till the end. I've shared the link to MindsDB's GitHub repo in the next tweet!

Akshay 🚀

65,672 views • 9 months ago