Snapshot · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
In the AI era, employee costs are becoming dynamic rather than static salaries, dependent on which AI models and tools they use and how efficiently they use them.
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Harry fires through a series of quick-take questions. On underrated models: Poolside, an American NeoLab building small, highly effective coding models with useful tooling. On the prediction that 70% of NeoLabs die in three years: disagree, though 50% including acquisitions is plausible. On whether Dario should be more positive: no — the ecosystem needs its paranoid voice, and Anthropic's paranoia is part of AI's neurodiversity. The most striking moment comes when Alex describes what excites him most about the AI era: rare disease research, which has historically been intelligence-bottlenecked and starved of inference, and crowdsourced urban infrastructure problems — finding every lead pipe in America, stress-testing local improvement ideas — that brilliant minds worldwide could now tackle with AI as a lever. These are the kinds of problems Alex wants to fund in his personal philanthropy: important, intelligence-intensive work that venture capital won't touch because there's no business model.
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In the AI age, employee cost is no longer a static salary — it's a dynamic variable driven by which models workers use and how efficiently. Companies should map employees on a quadrant: high productivity vs. cost effectiveness, and address the 'AI psychosis' in the danger zone.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
More than 1 million people have visited SiteGPT's website since launch in March 2023, all through organic channels.
Approximately 90% of SiteGPT's Google search traffic comes from the free tools Bhanu built, not the main product pages.
Bhanu sold his first SaaS product, Feather, for $250,000 so he could focus fully on the faster-growing SiteGPT.
SiteGPT has generated approximately $500,000 in total revenue since its launch in March 2023.
The average customer lifetime value for SiteGPT is approximately $1,700 to $1,800, which Bhanu considers unusually high.
SiteGPT receives around 50,000 visitors per month, of which about 200 convert to leads and 60 start free trials.
SiteGPT hit $10,000 MRR within its very first month of launch, driven largely by early traction in the AI chatbot space.
Despite strong download numbers, PropGPT could not push past $1,000–$2,000 MRR due to poor product retention.
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