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yieldcrv 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss

private secondary markets are pretty liquid for momentum tech companies, there is an entire cottage industry of people making trusts to circumvent any transfer restrictions

employees are very liquid if they want to be, or wait a year for the next 10x in valuation

onlyrealcuzzo 8 months ago [–]

Oh, yes, next year OpenAI will be worth $5T, sure

yieldcrv 8 months ago | [–]

I mean… if they do the same low float accounting that got them to the $500bn print, why not

it’s just selling a few shares for any higher share price

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