OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashing around the globe

Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by b00ty4breakfast on Sunday October 05, 2025 @12:10PM (#45482678)

I can never tell if these guys have come to genuinely love the smell of their own farts or if they're just constantly in sales mode. Like maybe all those hours in meetings with investors and shareholder or whatever has gotten them stuck, like your mom used to warn you about when you'd make faces at your little brother.

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Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by llbbdd on Sunday October 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#45484146)

When your job is to constantly be making the pitch for your company, and you live in a world where every conversation you have can be news before the end of the day, the mask can never come off.

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Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by dmbche on Sunday October 05, 2025 @03:08PM (#45484270)

If they know it won't bring in revenue, they can't get out of "sales mode" because when the runway stops they get left out. Like musical chairs with one chair left, you want to keep the game going if you don't think you can get it. And you're filthy rich as long as the game's going.

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Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by AuryGlenz on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:11AM (#45488474)

Have you every talked to someone that’s been in sales for a long time when they’re not at work?

Some of them (almost) never turn it off. It’s unfortunate because it makes them seem completely disingenuous.

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