Snapshot · Excess Returns
The high-end AI model Claude Fable reportedly costs around $6,000 per hour to use, and Anthropic does not profit from it because the delivery costs are comparably high.
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Starlink now generates 60–70% of SpaceX revenues via 10,000 satellites; its coverage advantage stems directly from SpaceX's launch cost edge. [1] — Aswath Damodaran "Starlink: ~60-70% of SpaceX revenue: The Starlink connectivity business accounts for roughly 60–70% of SpaceX's total revenues, making it t…" 07:35
SpaceX started as a space launch company, but the real commercial breakthrough was Starlink: broadband internet from 10,000 satellites in orbit. Because SpaceX launches satellites cheaper than anyone else, Starlink has coverage competitors can't match — and it now generates 60–70% of SpaceX's revenues. Without Starlink, SpaceX would still be a niche business.
Starlink's competitive moat rests on having approximately 10,000 satellites in space, giving it coverage that no other satellite-based internet provider can match.
The Starlink connectivity business accounts for roughly 60–70% of SpaceX's total revenues, making it the core commercial engine of the company.
SpaceX's prospectus claims a total addressable market of $26 trillion for AI — the largest TAM Damodaran has ever seen cited in a company filing.
SpaceX's prospectus claims a $26 trillion AI total addressable market — the largest Damodaran has ever seen. But a big market with poor unit economics and massive reinvestment needs can destroy value rather than create it. Getting to revenue and profit from a large TAM requires a chain of assumptions most analysts never complete.
Claude Fable reportedly cost $6,000 per hour to use — and Anthropic still lost money on it. The costs come from data centers, power, and water that don't benefit from traditional economies of scale. Until someone solves the unit economics of high-end AI, the entire LLM industry is competing for a market where profits may structurally not exist.
Sam's initial MVP was coded in approximately one week using ChatGPT voice mode and copy-pasting code, with no prior technical experience.
Sam argues Discord is 10x better than email for building relationships with younger users who rarely check their inbox.
Sam's monthly operating costs include Cursor ($200), AI image generation ($100), AI video generation ($200), hosting ($100), email marketing ($80), and AI compute ($300–$500).
Sam recommends copying days of Discord chat history into ChatGPT and prompting it to list recurring pain points as a fast, free market research technique.
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With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu can now create a new free marketing tool in less than 5 minutes by referencing existing tools.
Bhanu filters Ahrefs keyword results to show only those with a keyword difficulty below 10, making them realistic ranking targets for any decent website.
Bhanu sets a minimum search volume of 1,000 monthly searches when selecting keywords to target with free tools.
PropGPT averaged 20 downloads per day right after launching on the App Store through influencer marketing.
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