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WCLD directional thesis

Software-as-a-service stocks have massively underperformed because the cost of running AI is so high it completely breaks how these near-zero-incremental-cost business models used to mint money.

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“Software as a service, incredibly low incremental cost per user... This is why not Microsoft, but the SaaS companies have underperformed massively in the markets because the COGS of AI is just so high and that just completely breaks how these business models work.”
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