Silicon Valley limited partners reviewing quarterly letters ask general partners how portfolio companies plan to handle model price volatility if cloud providers renegotiate inference contracts.
Fund managers respond by favoring startups with multi-cloud abstraction layers and usage-based pricing aligned with customer value metrics.
Weekend newsletters remind readers that durable software margins historically accrue to workflow owners, not raw compute resellers.
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https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sundar-pichai-stanford-commencement-22304888.php