The AI growth engine

London
Joined February 2025
White-boarding live with founders and execs building some of the fastest-growing AI companies on the most important topic right now. Can't wait! Next Tuesday, I'm back in SF bringing together leaders to tackle one of the most critical challenges every company building and selling agents is facing: AI monetization. Thrilled to be joined by Simon from Plain and Sudhee from Battery, along with pricing experts from Simon-Kucher, for this closed-door workshop. We'll spend the session working through the toughest monetization scenarios folks in the room are actually navigating and building practical models live. It's invite-only. Shoot me a DM or apply in the comments if you think you should be there.
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As enterprise software evolves from selling workflows to selling the work itself, monetizing agents is now on every founder's mind. How do you price outcomes instead of seats? Do you go usage-based or outcome-based? What does packaging look like when the agent is the product? @medinism (CEO of @paid_ai) and @simonrohrbach (CEO of @plainsupport ) are hosting a working session with AI startups to dig into all things agent pricing and packaging. Sign up here: luma.com/itxn8xlx
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And then I saw this flying by 🤭
Personally what I see is post-AI, I cut 99% of my SaaS subscriptions and just built free replacements myself Now I only pay for AI and servers and storage, but now with rising prices I'm paying more for all of those than before So my business spending is much more concentrated to a few companies who I pay 10x-100x more per company than before From ~30 companies that I'd pay $100/mo to 3 companies I pay $10K/mo (roughly)
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The @Waymo feature is too good.
Apparently, saas is dead.
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Saas is dead Not my fault
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Fast growth and durability in agentic software are not the same thing. @nrmehta thinks there might actually be an inverse correlation between the two right now. The fastest growing products are often the easiest to switch off. Full episode with @medinism on the Get Paid podcast: Apple: tinyurl.com/yc7kth6b Short Spotify Link: tinyurl.com/4nswsss7 YouTube Link: youtu.be/_QAbsmOrOAs
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spotted from my bedroom window. saas is dead
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Shots fired 💀 @paid_ai
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A plane flying “SaaS is dead” at the SaaStr AI conference is hilarious 🤣
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"Someone's going to go all-in on outcome-based pricing and force everyone else to follow. It just hasn't happened yet." @MaxPGreenwald, CEO of @warmlyai ($7M ARR) joins the Get Paid podcast this week, and he's building in the middle of this chaos. This episode gets into what's broken and who blinks first. 🎧 Apple: tinyurl.com/ykb2p7ct 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/4a53mkrm ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/Xy0RTaUrz5I #GetPaidPodcast #AIMonetisation
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New episode of the Get Paid Podcast is live. @medinism sat down with Jason Eubanks, founder of @aurasellai , who closed one of the first outcome-based deals in go-to-market tech. A large enterprise. Thousands of sellers. Onboarded in 3 months. The unlock? They paid for revenue growth — not seats. 🎧 Apple: tinyurl.com/4cj85fy5 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/xuwd8vy3 ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/iX87JJWrECw #GetPaidPodcast #AgenticAI
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"Sellers are in the middle of a crisis of sameness." Same tools. Same prompts. Same messaging. In a world where everyone sounds like a bot, storytelling is the last differentiator that can't be copied. New Get Paid with @medinism and @douglandis is live. Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/mrypxp24 Spotify: tinyurl.com/396dhbzc YouTube: youtu.be/0x42WJTaA9o #Storytelling #GTM
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Most companies change their pricing when they're losing. @clay changed theirs while winning. A year of customer conversations. A planned short-term revenue dip. And a very clear thesis on how they win long-term. @kp_1123 , Head of Finance at @clay , joined @medinism on the Get Paid Podcast to walk through all of it. Link below. #AIPricing
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Full episode links: 🎧 Apple Podcast: tinyurl.com/533v6wnu 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/4jcycn88 📺 YouTube: youtu.be/cRKftqYDy9k?si=W6TR…
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We ran a credits workshop with @pricing_saas, and the conversation was too good not to share. So we turned it into a Get Paid episode. @medinism answering the questions we hear every day: → Should credits roll over? → How do you explain credits without losing people? → Is outcome-based pricing the end game? 🎧 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/3pchbp4d 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/ykehz9tx 🎧 YouTube: youtu.be/mfTB9v2KIHo More questions? Drop them below 👇
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This just in: @harmonic_ai’s Hot 25 just dropped. And we’re excited about the list. Congrats to everyone at Lightspeed portfolio companies @resolveai, @dualentry, @paid_ai, and @_StacksAI for ranking among other top early-stage companies based on investor interest. Hard work pays off, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for their teams!
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"The leash stops being a safety net. It becomes the thing holding you back." @Altimor on why agentic rails made sense in 2023 and why they're the problem in 2026.
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New Get Paid episode live. 🚨 "The ideal world is outcome-based pricing. Credits are the beautiful in-between." @Sofi_Shvets , CEO of @ClaidAI, changed their pricing model and saw 50-60% more revenue per customer. No new features required. Full episode below. #AIMonetisation #GetPaidPodcast
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