Same AI, Wildly Different Price: What Separates $50 From $5M with Jaya Gupta

On this episode 57 of the Get Paid podcast, host Manny Medina sits down with Jaya Gupta from Foundation Capital to discuss AI startups, context graphs, token maxing, and outcome-based pricing, exploring what’s really working six months after her viral paper reached 5 million views and was retweeted by Satya Nadella. ● Context graphs six months later: what aged well and what flopped ● Token maxing and how it ended the AI spending party two years early ● The $50 vs. $500K vs. multimillion-dollar illusion ● Why trust is the only real moat left ● Open source models as the escape hatch from runaway inference costs ● Horizontal vs. vertical context and the glue functions in between