[OC] OpenAI’s transformation from a non-profit research organization to a $157 Billion enterprise

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1. Source:
   [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI)

   [https://openai.com/our-structure/](https://openai.com/our-structure/) 

   [https://www.linkedin.com/](https://www.linkedin.com/) 

   [https://www.ft.com/content/638f67f7-5375-47fc-b3a7-af7c9e05b9e0](https://www.ft.com/content/638f67f7-5375-47fc-b3a7-af7c9e05b9e0) 

   [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/26/why-is-openai-planning-to-become-a-for-profit-business-and-does-it-matter](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/26/why-is-openai-planning-to-become-a-for-profit-business-and-does-it-matter) 

   Tools:
   Python (Plotly) for the streams and timeline bubbles, Canva for everything else

   Full article here:
   [https://www.coffeespace.com/blog-post/openai-founders-journey-a-transformer-company-transformed](https://www.coffeespace.com/blog-post/openai-founders-journey-a-transformer-company-transformed)

2. Does a gussied-up timeline constitute beautiful data?

3. So, you would need **7.85 billion people** to buy a $20 monthly subscription in order to make $157 billion. It’s just the entire population of the world, but ok.

4. I don’t know who ever believed it would be non-profit or “open”.

   I remember first hearing of them and checking out the website, they offered nothing just some vague promises.

   That’s not how you start promoting non profit work, first you do something useful and recognizable and then you push the media. What they did looked like search for funding.