OpenAI

2 posts tagged OpenAI

• The $32 Billion Blank Cheque

  Ilya Sutskever's company has raised roughly $11 billion, employs about twenty researchers, and has never shipped a product or published a paper. Nvidia just added another $5 billion anyway. What that says about how far pedigree can carry a valuation.

  August 6, 2026 · 7 min read
• raised $2 Billion Before Shipping a Product, and I Have ;;Thoughts

  I spent an evening reading about Mira Murati's new startup instead of sleeping. $12 billion valuation, zero products, and then a plot twist nobody saw coming. Here's the whole story, with receipts.

  July 22, 2026 · 8 min read