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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by piker on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:55PM (#47605710)
WOW. That does really drive home the perspective. I was an adolescent during those years and it did seem quick then, but that's an insane pace in retrospect.

Amazon is perhaps a counter-example to your point, though, to be fair. It seems to me they did a lot of spaghetti throwing while making accounting losses for a good number of years. Granted, they did it on OpenAI's dining budget.

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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by df2sdf on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:38PM (#47607449)
"It seems to me they did a lot of spaghetti throwing while making accounting losses for a good number of years."

They actually didn't. They knew what they were doing. Bezos had a proper background in Finance, unlike Altman.

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