Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand
OpenAI's $500B valuation, Meta's privacy backlash and more Ankush Das / Analytics India Magazine : OpenAI Hits $500 Billion, Surpasses SpaceX as World's Most Valuable Startup MarketWatch : OpenAI joins an elite club with its new $500 billion valuation. Now the pressure is on. Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI hits $500 billion valuation after secondary share sale Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly / Observer : Sam Altman's OpenAI Is Officially the World's Most Valuable Startup at $500B The Boston Globe : OpenAI finalizes deal that values it at $500 billion Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI reportedly closes new $6.6B secondary sale at $500B valuation Rob Quinn / Newser : Deal Values OpenAI at a Sky-High $500B X: @luke_metro : San Francisco renters, welcome to the permanent underclass. Garry Tan / @garrytan : 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 Rohin Dhar / @rohindhar : 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] Bluesky: Sam Blum / @samblum : 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... Forums: r/levels_fyi : OpenAI just hit a $500B valuation and sold $6.6B worth of shares r/business : OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation