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I reran the numbers, break even after four years. 10k users. Minimum upfront: about $15M Comfortable upfront: $20M–$25M Monthly revenue needed: $900k–$1.5M
by emil-lp 4mo ago
I reran the numbers, break even after four years. 10k users.
Minimum upfront: about $15M
Comfortable upfront: $20M–$25M
Monthly revenue needed: $900k–$1.5M
Required price per 10k individual customers: $99–$149/month
API-equivalent output price: usually $8–$20/M output tokens, unless utilization is very high.
- emil-lp 4mo ago[flagged]
- simianwords 4mo agodawg -- what is your point? please write your statement clearly and we can discuss.
- emil-lp 4mo agoMy apologies for not being clear about my point. I try to do some napkin math of what it takes to start a company serving an LLM to customers. I thought maybe 10,000 users sounded like a reasonable number. I'd like also to compare it to traditional Internet companies, e.g. Twitter. I'd guess Twitter with 10k users would cost me literally a dumpster dive, so essentially no cost. If I were to start an LLM company, what would my initial investment look like? Turns out around 15+ million dollars assuming I would get 10,000 users willing to pay 200$/month. I just don't see how the numbers you show add up.