Strictly From Nowhere: A Podcast Experiment by Cause of a Kind The Agent Ate Your Paycheck | Episode #048
Someone posted that their team spent $60,000 on tokens last month. Another post celebrated an engineer burning $10,000 in a single day. No mention of revenue. No mention of what was built. No mention of a single customer paying for anything.
When did we start measuring success by how much money we light on fire?
In this episode of The Stand Up, Justin and Mike go in on the dangerous trend of companies chest beating about token spend like it is some kind of badge of honor. They break down why spending more does not mean building more, why revenue is still the only metric that matters, and why the human side of business is getting lost in the pursuit of all agentic everything.They also ask two very real questions to the world. Show us what you built with that money. And show us who benefited from it.Key
Takeaways
Spending $60,000 on tokens without revenue to show for it is not innovation. It is debt.
The only metric that matters in business is revenue minus expenses. Everything else is a story.
AI is not a bubble. But the behavior around AI spending could absolutely create one.
The bar for entrepreneurship should not be how few humans you can employ. It should be how many lives your business can impact.
More with less has always been the goal. The best code is the least amount of code that solves the problem.
Open invitation: any VC or CTO spending at this level, come on the show. No hate. Just questions.
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