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Tokenomics Will Wreck Your Margins: The AI Model Routing Workflow That Cuts Spend 50%

Tarun Raisoni built a data center company to roughly $400 million in trailing sales without taking a dollar of outside capital, sold it to a Fortune 500 for $217 million, then walked away from the boat and the fishing rod to start over. His answer for why is four words long: "exits are just a number."

What he started instead is Gruve, and what he came on the show to argue is the most uncomfortable idea in enterprise AI right now.

Here it is. In the cloud era, your data went somewhere else and stayed exactly what it was. A provider could store it, back it up, and hand it back to you unchanged…

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