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The Jevons Trap in AI: Q&A on Margins, Models, and Misconceptions

Answering a journalist's questions

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Dave Friedman
Jul 21, 2025
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After I published AI Startups Are SaaS Minus the Margins, a journalist reached out with some sharp follow-up questions. I’m sharing the questions here, with my responses. These answers are the backbone of how I think about AI infrastructure, capital formation, and margin compression. The questions were good. I hope the answers are better.

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