Re:OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast ...
by ChicagoDave on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:31AM
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Does anyone at OpenAI know how to run a business?
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Re:OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast ...
by khoury on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:43AM
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Sam Altman worked at the same incubator that runs this website.
Re:OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast ...
by this_user on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:13AM
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Founding a start-up with VC money, dumping the bag into someone else's lap, and then riding off into the sunset is a very different skill set from actually growing and running a company that is no longer early stage.
Look at Zuckerberg. He may have been good as a founder, but if he didn't have super voting shares, and if Meta's cash flow from their ad business wouldn't mask how poor his strategic decision making has been, he would have been pushed out as CEO years ago.
Re:OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast ...
by ChicagoDave on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:20PM
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I’m still amused at how many people will lick the boots of any oligarch/startup toad.
Re:OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast ...
by romanovcode on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:53AM
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But how many companies did he actually launched? lol
The only actual product was "Loopt", some bs location sharing app that nobody used or ever heard about.