AI ROI: Show Me The Math | EP9: Meta's AI Layoffs. CFOs, Are You Ready?

Meta just laid off 8,000 people to fund $145 billion in AI capex. Oracle cut 30,000 in March. Cisco cut nearly 4,000 and the stock jumped 20 percent. The market is rewarding the trade. What most coverage is missing is that this is not a hyperscaler story. The same math scales down to a mid-sized engineering team, and it lands as an 8x increase on the AI coding line of the CFO's budget. In Episode 9 of AI ROI: Show Me The Math, Paul Brzozowski walks through The AI Trade: the math behind the Meta layoff news, the question no executive committee can answer yet, and the 5-move playbook for CFOs and AI transformation leaders. CFOs, are you ready? Covered in this episode: - The pattern: Meta 8,000 layoffs, Oracle 30,000, Cisco ~4,000 — all funding AI capex - The math: how a 100-developer team's $25,000 monthly AI coding bill becomes $200,000 - The 8x problem on the CFO's desk: $300K a year to $2.4M a year - The question no one is answering: which developers, which pull requests, which projects are driving real production value - The blueprint Meta, Oracle, and Cisco handed every software business - Coding IQ: measuring engineer and developer ROI under usage-based pricing - What CFOs and AI transformation leaders need to build before the next renewal CHAPTERS 00:00 Not the layoffs reporter 00:50 The pattern: Meta, Oracle, Cisco 02:05 The blueprint scales down 02:35 The math: 100 developers 04:35 The 8x problem 05:35 The question no one is answering 06:35 The CFO role rewritten in real time 07:20 The hyperscaler trade, your version 08:35 The measurement mandate 09:35 What comes next ABOUT THE SERIES AI ROI: Show Me The Math analyzes the numbers behind enterprise AI adoption, cost, and return. No hype. Just the math. ABOUT THE HOST Paul Brzozowski is co-founder of Olakai, the Enterprise AI ROI &Governance Platform that helps organizations measure, govern, and scale their AI stacks. He hosts Enterprise AI Unlocked and the AI ROI: Show Me The Math series. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbrzozowski/ New episodes regularly. Subscribe to follow the series. #EnterpriseAI #AIROI #CFO #CIO #MetaLayoffs #AIGovernance