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bucolic_frolic

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1. A slew of AI companies are betting $100-150 billion

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 07:19 PM

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that they can get this going and profitable before the debts come due. That people will pay, en masse $15-100 a month to start. That the 95% of laid off execs and office workers will still need AI.

Lots of personal computer companies went belly up. Lots of dot comes pissed billions of venture capital on startups. Lucent, WorldCom, Enron were in the fallout.

AI financing is Bernie Madoff without the Ponzi.

Time your bets better than the principals involved. Have an exit strategy.

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