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Yup. Investing in your customer, what is that if it is not buying demand. They get the cash to buy your output.


> Investing in your customer, what is that if it is not buying demand

It can be manufacturing demand that wouldn't otherwise exist. It can be facilitating demand to come online sooner and smoother. You can't tell which it is by only looking at the transaction; you need to know how many dollars are going into the ecosystem as a whole for purchases of goods and services. Until Anthropic's S-1 lands tomorrow-ish, we won't have that publicly.




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