Re:How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?
by og_kalu on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:38AM
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>My point is that for these purposes, users are not fungible. You can't just divide the cost-revenue equation by the amount of users N on both sides.
Again, yes you can if you're simply trying to see the relative level of value you need to extract from your users. It's not a complicated idea. $8 is far far below what Google, Meta report. You were wrong. It's not a high bar. End of story.
>If you add a pile of fictious users to the usercount,
As always, nonsensical hypotheticals are just that. Nonsensical.
> No it's not.
If you add a pile of fictious users to the usercount, the apparent average cost-per-user drops as the fictious users do not use the service and do not add their own costs. This lowers the apparent amount of per-user revenue you need.
However, as fictious users also do not generate revenue, this is all smoke and mirrors.