05/20/2026
In 1849, the miners didn’t get rich. The guys selling picks and shovels did.
Nvidia’s gross margin? Over 70%.
OpenAI’s loss last year? $5 billion. On $3.7B in revenue.
Mark Cuban says the first trillionaire will use AI in a “yet-to-be-discovered way.” Tony Robbins is selling the class on how to get there.
Neither of them is wrong. But both of them are proving the same point.
The pick-and-shovel guys already won. The class guys are winning right now. And the people who actually fix something that matters — $250B in healthcare waste, cancer detection, smarter infrastructure — will do it quietly, at a 1% margin, with no summit.
The numbers don’t lie. The narrative does.
