Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Alice Han noted that financial services account for roughly a quarter of Hong Kong's GDP and employ 250,000 people, making AI access restrictions particularly damaging.
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James Kynge delivers a blunt verdict: U.S. technology restrictions on China have not worked when it comes to AI. Banning Hong Kong while leaving Singapore, the UK, and Silicon Valley fully open to Chinese engineers defeats the purpose entirely. He estimates China is roughly a few months behind the U.S. in developing world-class LLMs — a gap that restrictions have done little to widen [1] — James Kynge "A Chinese engineer in Singapore, or even in Silicon Valley, can still access Anthropic and train Chinese LLMs on U.S. models. Banning Hong …" 16:49 . The hosts note that David Sachs, one of the few voices in the White House arguing export restrictions were counterproductive, has now left his role, which Alice Han fears will only accelerate a more aggressive and ultimately ineffective crackdown.
A Chinese engineer in Singapore, or even in Silicon Valley, can still access Anthropic and train Chinese LLMs on U.S. models. Banning Hong Kong is symbolic theater, not effective policy. The U.S. has failed to meaningfully slow China's AI development.
Hong Kong once promised R&D teams access to both U.S. and Chinese frontier AI models — the best of both worlds. That vision is dead. With U.S. restrictions now lumping Hong Kong with the mainland, the city's unique cross-border value proposition is evaporating fast.
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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