Comment by Tadpole9181
2 days ago
> Why would you sell at 50% of market rate?
Because market rate is a 400%+ markup right now and not everyone is a greedy American kleptocrat with a diagnosable addiction to extracting every possible cent of wealth on the planet within a single fiscal quarter.
Yeah. Seriously.
I can see a few other benefits to the "Sell at a reasonable markup, rather than 'market price'" strategy.
* You get a reputation for not price-gouging.
* Your company gets used to operating with "enough" cash, rather than having "crazy" amounts of cash that it might be tempted to spend on misadventures.
* When the collapse of LLM Mania burns the LLM industry and its hangers-on to the ground, you get to keep your prices the same and keep your business practices the same... rather than scrambling to figure out how to make do with far less cash.