January 23, 2025· 44 min

How Companies Are Actually Spending Money on AI Now

Eric Glyman

Orality

Model

67%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(996 words)

M:93%

HostTracy Alloway(2,001 words)

M:29%

GuestEric Glyman(5,584 words)

M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic29%

literally, completely, basically

Engagement67%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, like

Repetition100%

like (110x), what (76x), think (66x)

Parallelism75%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And I have to say some of it i..., But I think one of the big thi...

Sound Patterns87%

81 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases2%

i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%

could, might, maybe

Passive Voice8%

be matched, be matched, being used

Abstract Nouns15%

investment, recommendation, reality

Subordination6%

because, though, while

Sentence Length41%

Avg: 15.2 words/sentence

Word Complexity46%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style33%

621 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

literally, completely, really

Description

In theory, all of this AI spending has to deliver some kind of return. Companies (or other end users) will have to get tangible value from its outputs in order to justify the billions spent on research, chips, energy, and more. So what's actually happening at the corporate level? On this episode, we speak with Eric Glyman, who is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp, which helps corporations manage their expenses. As such, he has front row visibility in terms of what's actually being spent and who is actually getting the money. We talk about trends he's seeing in terms of spending going toward companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as how AI tech is affecting the operations of his own business. Read More: SoftBank Shares Soar as Masayoshi Son’s AI Vision Coalesces Trump Pushes to Make US an AI Superpower, With Fewer Guardrails Only Bloomberg - Business News, Stock Markets, Finance, Breaking & World News subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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