Meta Spent $14.3B and Came in Fourth | Goldman: 16K Jobs Gone Monthly | SaaSocalypse | CWH-101

Meta Spent $14.3B and Came in Fourth | Goldman: 16K Jobs Gone Monthly | SaaSocalypse | CWH-101

From Artificial Intelligence Growth Architect | Connor with Honor | Real Estate Consultant by Connor T. MacIvor | Connor with Honor

April 12, 2026 · 14 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Meta's significant investment in AI and its competitive position in the tech industry.

Meta just spent fourteen point three billion dollars rebuilding their entire AI stack from scratch. Alexander Wang from Scale AI led the rebuild. Nine months. Thousands of engineers. They came out in fourth place. Behind Google, behind OpenAI, behind Anthropic. Four companies spending more money than most nations generate in a year trying to beat each other in a game that reinvents itself every six months. Zuckerberg is burning $135 billion annually on AI. Meanwhile we are sitting here buildi...

People in this episode

Host: Connor T. MacIvor

Topics covered

  • AI development
  • technology competition
  • job market
  • SaaS
  • business strategy

Keywords

  • Meta
  • AI stack
  • Alexander Wang
  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • job loss
  • SaaSocalypse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Scale AI, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic

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