LMArena

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• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  How about you just put, uh, a chart and you show, um, you tell everybody who's doing a query there that all your queries are available in slash VIP. And if you have slash VIP, you can watch the live feed... charge a hundred dollars a month for it or a thousand dollars a year or $500 a year, come up with like a pretty good deal and a show. You can get a hundred or 500 people to pay for that feed... That would be a great way to start a simple revenue experiment.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  So for Elam Arena, which is now going to be its own company, why not just raise $2 million from their community? They have a lot of very wealthy users, I'm sure. So just equity, crowdfund it, sort out the business model, and then maybe raise traditional venture capital.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  this one seems to have a pretty clear path to cover their expenses. Like what could it cost to run this?

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  if you have scale, you can create enough data exhaust to generate value without even having to go the ad supported route that social media companies did. So I can see a lot of ways for this company to monetize.

• mixed assessment Jason Calacanis

  My question is who will invest in them? Any venture capitalist will take a bet on this because it's AI. They'll get some data from it. Sometimes VCs will make a bet on a company that has growth and has interesting data because it could inform their other investments over time.

• bullish prediction Jason Calacanis

  this could be, you know, very quickly a $10 million a year business. If you get the language model companies or corporations to pay you for data, 50,000 a year, a hundred thousand a year, if they found it valuable

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  Jason Bloomberg says that it gets over a million visitors a month. I've played with it. I use it quite a lot in my own research.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  to see that company, which has been pretty open, pretty useful, become a company I think is genius.

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  the thing that Lon and I are most excited about today is the fact that LM arena is going to be a startup and not just a website that does cool

1. 2028-02-15 this could be, you know, very quickly a $10 million a year business. If you get the language model companies or corporations to pay you for data, 50,000 a year, a hundred thousand a year, if they found it valuable · Prediction · pending
2. 2026-01-06 series_a · $150M · Led by Felicis

VentureSignalScore 33.3/100 for lmarena, composed from 4 of 4 components (ai_infra formula)