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Every AI Company Is Accidentally Building a Bank — Dor Sasson, Stigg

Every AI Company Is Accidentally Building a Bank — Dor Sasson, Stigg

Dor Sasson argues that the 2026 AI pricing crises at Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub were infrastructure failures: usage was checked after invoicing rather than before inference. He proposes synchronous entitlement checks with asynchronous settlement, borrows banking concepts such as holds, double-entry bookkeeping, and credit sources, and outlines four patterns for selling AI at scale.

Mastering AI Pricing: Flexible & Agile Monetization — Mayank Pant, Stripe

Mastering AI Pricing: Flexible & Agile Monetization — Mayank Pant, Stripe

This talk outlines the challenges of AI pricing, where traditional SaaS models fail due to unpredictable compute costs and margin pressure. It presents a five-step framework for developing a successful hybrid pricing strategy, emphasizing value alignment, customer trust, and rapid iteration as key competitive advantages.