Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
by vessenes on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:15PM
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Fair comment, I will not fight you on it.
I propose oAI is the first one likely to enter the ranks of Apple, Google, Facebook, though. But it's just a proposal. FWIW they are already 3x Uber's MAU.
Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
by poopiokaka on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:49PM
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They aren’t making money so they haven’t entered any rank. They have users and revenue but cannot last at current setup. Ticking time bomb
Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
by Palmik on Saturday October 04, 2025 @12:40AM
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Uber became profitable only very recently: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/8/24065999/uber-earnings-pro...
Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
by beAbU on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:11AM
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Yes and look at how much their service has degraded to get there.
Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
by scarface_74 on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:59PM
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Spotify goes back and forth from barely profitable to losing money every quarter. They have to give 70% of their revenue to the record labels and that doesn’t count operating expenses.
As Jobs said about Dropbox, music streaming is a feature not a product
Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
by myroon5 on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:08PM
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I listed multiple candidates so disputing one wouldn't dispute my main point ;)
Hyperbole to say no major consumer tech brands have launched for decades
from my recollection, post-FB $75B+ market cap consumer tech companies (excluding financial ones like Robinhood and Coinbase) include:
Uber, Airbnb, Doordash, Spotify (all also have ~$1bn+ monthly revenue run rate)