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Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup by myroon5 on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:57PM (#45465761)
> first major consumer tech brand to launch since Facebook

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)

Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup by vessenes on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:15PM (#45466671)
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 (#45467052)
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 (#45470558)
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 (#45471622)
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 (#45465800)
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 (#45465917)
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

Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup by bigyabai on Friday October 03, 2025 @06:43PM (#45468679)
> back and forth from barely profitable to losing money every quarter

I would be shocked if OpenAI was not in a similar (or worse) position.

Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup by degamad on Monday October 06, 2025 @12:02AM (#45487539)
I would be shocked if OpenAI was profitable in any quarter...