Maybe there were more than 1 bidder for OpenRouter… Regardless, a business like OpenRouter may be best in the form of a complement product of something else (like payment processing).

The value is in the existing customers, isn't it? Not so much the product.

quick you are a saas company pulling 3b cash annually how do you deploy it

> it has clear platform dynamics. It is an aggregator of AI models, and once enterprises use it, that creates switching costs since all your AI expense is in one place: logs, budgets, etc, so switching would be painful and generally not make a lot of sense.

Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.

Do sustainable tech startups actually exist?