Podbit · God Mode Podcast
Anthropic has stacked $380 billion in committed compute spend from nearly every major tech company. That represents 11.3 gigawatts — roughly 10% of all US data center capacity. When everyone holds equity, everyone roots for you to win.
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Rick noted Anthropic's revenue grew approximately 90x in a single year, making it one of the fastest-growing companies in history.
Anthropic secured $380 billion in total committed spend across AWS, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, FluidStack, SpaceX, and CoreWeave.
Anthropic's combined compute deals totalled 11.3 gigawatts of committed power, representing roughly 10% of the entire US data center capacity.
Sam built Algrow, a SaaS for finding viral content formats, with zero coding experience using ChatGPT and Cursor. Six months later: 10,000 users, $14K/month in revenue.
Sam's first MVP threw an application error on its very first user — and he shipped it anyway. The core idea worked, and that was enough to validate the product and keep users coming back.
Sam joined Discord voice chats, muted himself, and silently screen-shared his product. Users in the chat started tagging him asking what the tool was. No pitch needed — curiosity did the selling.
Most founders post links in Discord and immediately get banned for self-promotion. Sam's approach was the opposite: build rapport, help people with the tool, let word of mouth do the work.
Find where your ICP lives. Listen before building. Validate with DMs and Loom recordings. Build in public with users inside your own Discord server. Turn early adopters into advocates with free access.
Instead of fearing the self-promo ban in large Discord servers, create your own private server for your product. You funnel in ideal customers and build a relationship that email can't replicate.
Algrow helps creators find and replicate viral video formats, starting at $25/month. It analyzes subscriber counts, average views, and trending formats — and can even generate the videos with AI.
After weeks of Sam silently screen-sharing in a Discord server, the server owner — unprompted — made a full YouTube promotional video about Algrow. Sam paid nothing and asked for nothing.
Producer Gus admits Discord never crossed his mind as a customer acquisition channel. Pat connects the insight to a broader lesson: match your distribution channel to where your actual customers live.
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