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Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups
20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Jul 2, 2026
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Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups
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20VC
Harry Stebbings
(Podcast host and intelligence analyst, 20VC)
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Jason Lemkin
(Founder and CEO, SaaStr)
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Rory O'Driscoll
(Guest)
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Executive Summary
Enterprises are aggressively optimizing AI expenditures, with examples like Coinbase cutting costs by 50% through increased use of open-source models, signaling a market shift towards efficiency and ROI.
Frontier AI model providers like Anthropic are experiencing explosive revenue growth but are also pursuing regulatory capture by lobbying against Chinese open-source models to protect their market position.
Big Tech's AI narrative is under scrutiny, as seen with Microsoft's stock decline and decelerating Azure growth, suggesting the market is questioning its core AI strategy beyond its OpenAI investment.
The tech market exhibits a 'casino-like' speculative fever, evidenced by Kalshi's soaring valuation and the high-multiple IPO of Bending Spoons, creating significant volatility and risk.
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