Tai Rattigan
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Tai Rattigan
@XOptimiser
Founder at @partnerleaders 🚀 Prev: @deel @amplitude_hq @optimizely - Grappling fan 🤼♂️



New: @ServiceNow is the latest major public company to say it’s blown through its full year budget for AI coding tools from Anthropic in the first few months of 2026, just like @Uber CTO @praveenTweets said abt his company. “It’s a really hard problem,” CIO Kellie Romack said.









The IPO system is broken. You don’t go public to raise growth capital anymore. You do it to dump equity on retail. NVIDIA went public at ~$600mn in 1999. Microsoft at 780mn. Oracle at ~270mn. Intel at 58mn! Today you won’t IPO even at $60 billion. At a $600 million valuation if you hit the jackpot and become a $60 billion company in public markets that’s a 100x return. Investing $10k as retail makes you a millionaire. This is wealth creation. At $60 billion there’s very little chance you get to $600 billion let alone 100x from there. You will certainly lose money as retail. Mathematically if you only allow $100 billion IPOs you’re basically capping upside at maybe 10-20x. There’s no more 100x or 1000x potential. And even 10x is extremely unlikely. Airbnb, Uber DoorDash are maybe 10x outcomes at best for retail investors. These are supposed be success stories of last decade. Apple Microsoft Tesla Google were all 100x opportunities for retail. So you’ve basically cut the average middle class investor out of the upside while private markets and insiders keep most of it for themselves.




JUST IN: Scientists discover massive lithium deposit in Appalachia with enough supply to replace 328 years of U.S. imports.





Every conversation I have with @dylan522p, I'm really just trying to understand the supply and demand of tokens. This is a unique episode in that it's entirely dedicated to talking about both sides of that equation. We discuss: - The infinite demand for the newest models - @SemiAnalysis_ going from $10K on AI spend to $7M - Mythos and Anthropic's compute problem - Why TSMC spending $100B on CapEx could cause a shortage - Robotics as next demand wave - Why memory prices will double again This is my second conversation with Dylan and find myself needing to speak with him more and more often to make sense of it all. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Surging AI Spend 10:27 Token Demand 16:21 When Ideas Are Cheap and Execution is Easy 20:46 Model Hoarding 22:34 Robotics 27:03 The Compute Bottleneck 30:26 The AI Permanent Underclass 31:39 Supply Chain Reality 37:47 CPUs 42:54 Predictions: Public Backlash








