Join Mike Weider, CEO and Co-Founder of Frugal AI, in a candid conversation with Gary Fowler as they unpack one of the most pressing challenges facing modern startups: building sustainable, profitable businesses in an era of rapidly rising cloud and AI costs. Drawing on lessons from four startups over three decades, Mike shares hard-earned insights on unit economics, pricing models, and what fundamentally changes when AI becomes core to your product and cost structure.

🎯 Insights You’ll Learn:

✓ Why rising cloud and AI costs are becoming a margin killer for startups

✓ How AI is reshaping unit economics, pricing, and billing models

✓ What’s fundamentally different about building companies in a post-AI world

✓ Mistakes founders make when scaling AI-heavy products

✓ Lessons from building and exiting four venture- ...