The modern founder stack: $20M in model credits, $20M in cloud credits, $10M cash
gajesh · x · 2026-09-07
A founder sketches the resource structure of today's AI startups: typical founders will raise roughly $20M in OpenAI/Anthropic credits, $20M in GCP/AWS credits, and $10M in friends & family cash — which he frames as "intelligence, compute and talent / general capital," suggesting startup fundraising increasingly revolves around non-cash resources.
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