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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. We pulled benchmarks for R&D spend from private and public companies in application, infrastructure and security, and consumer internet.

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

In a recent conversation, we laughed about how tough it is to stay up with the AI Emergence, and I pointed out that it’s almost a full time job just keeping up with him , let alone everything else happening in the AI world. Willison is prolific, to no small degree, because he’s skilled at applying tools like ChatGPT.)