Without circular investments and valuations what would Open AI be worth? 100B? 300B? Entirely on revenue alone it seems like 20B. Current valuation appears to be two orders of magnitude off.

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thefounder 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Let the retailers decide this year at IPO! The heavy bags must be carried by someone

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2OEH8eoCRo0 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Is this really the con? Be part of the in-group and buy pre-IPO shares to dump them on joe-six-pack shortly afterwards?

	▲	JKCalhoun 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Always has been? (Well, with pyramid schemes anyway.)
	▲	thefounder 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		At least they don’t SPAC their way into the public market but the answer to your question is yes!

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vonneumannstan 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Without circular investments and valuations what would Open AI be worth? 100B? 300B? Entirely on revenue alone it seems like 20B. Current valuation appears to be two orders of magnitude off.

They just passed $20B in revenue, you can't really expect a company with this much hype and traction to have a 1x multiple.. that's not to say a 35x multiple makes sense either.