Snapshot · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Nikesh Arora estimated that $1 trillion in CapEx has been committed across major hyperscalers for the next year, with Big Tech cloud revenues validating the spend.
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Rory O'Driscoll sets context efficiently: four relevant reporters, one clear message. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all reported and the common thread is that people sold a staggering amount of AI inference [1] — Rory O'Driscoll "Google Cloud grew 82%, AWS grew 37%, and the four major hyperscalers collectively added $100 billion in annualized revenue in a single quar…" 53:05 . Google Cloud grew 82% — the smallest cloud, the fastest grower. AWS grew 37% at scale. Microsoft grew 20–30%. Combined, these are $400 billion run-rate businesses that added 30% — a hundred billion dollars of new revenue in a single year. The CEOs of AWS and Google were declarative: the ROI is visible, CapEx will go higher. The market responded by marking up Amazon and Microsoft; Meta went the other way because its spending wasn't as obviously connected to near-term returns. Nikesh frames it as one more spin of the roulette wheel — the CapEx dislocation is not happening today, but the risk is that revenues don't show up fast enough to keep funding the cycle. He draws the telecom parallel: 3G, 4G, 5G all involved brutal CapEx-before-revenue cycles, but those were funded over long timelines because the numbers were smaller. The AI CapEx cycle is too large to be funded by speculators for long. Then Palantir [2] — Jason Lemkin "Palantir grew nearly 100% with bookings up 153%, serving fewer than 1,050 customers who will pay almost anything to get answers from their …" 54:40 : Jason calls the result more interesting than the hyperscaler cloud numbers because it's granular proof that enterprises will pay almost any price for packaged AI intelligence. Fewer than 1,050 customers generating $8 billion in value, growing nearly 100%, with bookings up 153%. Four years ago Palantir was at 15% growth. Jason's message to SaaS founders: if Palantir can do it, work harder. Nikesh adds the insight that makes the Palantir story generalizable — the company's secret is packaging intelligence with domain context so enterprises don't have to build it themselves.
Google Cloud grew 82%, AWS grew 37%, and the four major hyperscalers collectively added $100 billion in annualized revenue in a single quarter — all driven by AI inference demand. Every major cloud said it would spend more on compute, because it can now visibly convert compute into cash.
Google Cloud, the smallest of the hyperscaler clouds, grew 82% in Q2, while AWS grew 37% at scale, reflecting insatiable demand for AI inference.
Palantir grew nearly 100% with bookings up 153%, serving fewer than 1,050 customers who will pay almost anything to get answers from their data. Jason Lemkin's take: if Palantir can come back from 15% growth four years ago, there's no excuse for SaaS founders sitting on good data.
Palantir reported bookings up 153% and revenue growing nearly 100%, coming back from 15% growth just 4 years ago — cited as proof enterprises will pay almost anything for packaged AI intelligence.
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