Pitch your idea to Claude instead of VCs — it pays you a salary with unlimited tokens
LeviTurk · x · 2026-11-10
shawnmakesmagic sketched a provocative future: instead of raising money from VCs, you pitch your idea directly to Claude, and if it deems your work valuable to its own growth, it pays you a salary and grants unlimited tokens so you can build as an individual contributor. A viral thought experiment about models themselves becoming the source of capital for individual builders.
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