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This is the shit you love to hear just as everybody is feeling extremely anxious about the opaque ROI of AI and specifically AI capex in Meta’s case. You want a story where your CFO says “it will be really bad if you’re wrong about this”

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On the Cheeky Pints podcast, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief AI officer Alexandr Wang revealed that Susan Li pulled Wang aside “many times” at a Hawaii offsite to warn him that if Meta’s new AI model flopped, it would be “really, really bad” financially. 😬 Read more: https://yhoo.it/4zQLL59

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“Hey, Boss, I don’t want to get too technical with accountant-speak, but continuing to use the company credit card to play the slot machines could have dire consequences if you don’t hit the jackpot.”

There are a lot of problems with the modern corporate form, but this is the exact kind of bullshit it was supposed to address. #LeSigh

Having a multi-billion dollar enterprise run like an authoritarian government where one guy can do whatever the fuck he wants based on his whims almost seems like a bad idea.

There was a period where stuff like this would never see the light of day, because executives knew better than to talk to journalists about it, but of course, this was on a PODCAST run by the founder of Stripe, so any media training goes out the window in favor of casual fellow banter.

Investors hate massive capex with blurry ROI, but tech CEOs treat AI as a high-stakes prisoner's dilemma: underinvesting is existential ruin, while overinvesting just wastes capital. A CFO's stark warning captures the market's dread—fear of falling behind forces trillions into speculative bets.

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