Source: OpenAI employees sold shares worth ~$6.6B to a consortium of investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and T. Rowe Price
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current …
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@davidgerard.co.uk
@davidgerard.co.uk
on bluesky
VC is moribund except AI — > More than half of 2025 deal value and 30% of completed deals have gone to AI startups, highlighting investors' focus. — pitchbook.com/news/reports... and AI is moribund except OpenAI - VC Georg, the outlier which should not be counted — pitchbo…
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OpenAI is the world's most valuable private company after private stock sale
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@luke_metro
@luke_metro
on x
San Francisco renters, welcome to the permanent underclass.
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@garrytan
Garry Tan
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We need to build housing. All the loony hard leftists are ready to pitchfork every tech person they meet The only path to a vibrant city that supports every income level is YIMBY and we need it NOW
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@rohindhar
Rohin Dhar
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OpenAI completes tender offer allowing early employees to sell shares at a $500BN valuation How big a deal is this for the San Francisco based company? Well the $6.6BN in liquidity for employees is enough to buy *every single* home sold in San Francisco in the last year [image]
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@samblum
Sam Blum
on bluesky
OpenAI's valuation crossed the half-trillion mark today. On the heels of Sora 2, which is essentially a plug and play tool for deepfakes that could, you know, subvert our reality to an even more staggering degree. — www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/o...
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r/levels_fyi
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OpenAI just hit a $500B valuation and sold $6.6B worth of shares
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r/business
r
on reddit
OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation