YC Managing Partner @harjtaggar says many young founders are still too conservative with token spend and advises them to not skimp on token budget.
"Token spend is more like rent. You don't say, 'I'm not moving to San Francisco to build my tech startup because the rent's expensive.' Yes, it's expensive, but it's the place to be. You don't conserve on that. You actually want to spend money on that. There's other things you save money on."
"Many of the founders, especially if they're younger, just don't have the budgets to use the latest models and be cost insensitive and token-max. They're just used to conserving and trying to do more with less."
"Internally, we wonder if there's some training to push the founders to spend more on tokens because maybe they're thinking about tokens as something you should conserve spend on."
Video