Pay-As-You-Go Will Break Down as AI Capital Deployment Speeds Up

evanjconrad · x · 2026-10-31

Evanjconrad responds that startups won't prepay because they want to — supply will force them. Pay-as-you-go breaks down because the scale and speed of capital a startup must deploy to stay competitive is rising rapidly.

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