SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60BN | Stripe's $8BN OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600BN in Revenue? | Lovable and Higgsfield Raise Mega Rounds

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Aug 20, 2026

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Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more.

Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others.

In Today's Episode We Discuss:
  • Elon's Deal of the Decade: SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60BN

  • Why Cursor Was Surprisingly Cheap at $60BN

  • Why Zuckerberg Failed to Buy the AI Prize Elon Secured

  • Elon vs Zuck: Who Would You Rather Work For?

  • Will Microsoft or Amazon Now Race to Buy Cognition?

  • Stripe's $7BN OpenRouter Deal Creates Huge VC Winners

  • OpenRouter's Fatal Risk: Enterprises Don't Want 10 Models

  • Anthropic Turns Its First Profit on $11.5BN of Quarterly Revenue

  • Can Anthropic Really Reach $600BN in Revenue?

  • Why Every Elite Engineer Could Soon Get $100K in AI Tokens

  • Would Rory Buy Anthropic at a $2.5TN Valuation?

  • Silver Lake's $43BN Workday Bet: SaaS Isn't Dead, It's Mature

  • How Silver Lake Could Make $30BN From Workday

  • Lovable vs Higgsfield: Similar Revenue, Radically Different Valuations

  • Is Lovable's $13.3BN Price Actually Cheap?

  • Why the DOJ Is Coming After Andreessen Horowitz

  • Why a16z Has "50 Legal Battles" Happening at Once

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