Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat

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Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll argue that every incumbent B2B SaaS company except Palantir is being maimed by agentic AI, while Figma posts blowout Q4 2025 earnings amid existential uncertainty.

  • Lemkin: only Palantir among publicly traded B2B companies has a competitive agent product with measurable revenue impact.
  • Anthropic’s security feature announcement wiped ~$20B from cybersecurity stocks including CrowdStrike, which was still trading at 16x revenue after the correction.
  • Anthropic lined up $5-6B in employee share sales at a $350B valuation; Lemkin estimates AI leaders will mint 100,000 decamillionaires, vs. Nvidia’s existing 20,000.
  • Figma Q4 2025: $1.22B ARR, 40% YoY growth (up from 38% in Q3), 97% GRR, 136% NDR, stock up 15% post-earnings.
  • Lemkin expects Claude Code to attack Figma’s design layer within 12 months, calling it the Fortnite shrinking circle for Replit, Lovable, Vercel, and Figma.
  • Citrini Research’s “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” piece argues AI creates Ghost GDP — corporate profits and market caps inflate while consumer income does not keep pace.
  • Jack Altman shut down his ~$400M solo fund (Alt Cap) to join Benchmark, which Lemkin frames as giving up what 95% of venture partners dream of owning.
  • Lemkin’s momentum stock picks among the only five up over one year: Palantir, Figma, Cloudflare, Shopify, and a fifth; flags Atlassian (down ~75%, accelerating to 23% growth) as the deepest value dislocation.

2026-02-26 · Watch on YouTube

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