Sam Altman sometimes wishes OpenAI were public so haters could short the stock—‘I would love to see them get burned on that’

Sam Altman is getting fed up with the haters, and he wishes OpenAI were public so they could put money behind their critiques. The CEO quickly became defensive when BG2 podcast host and Altimeter Capital founder Brad Gerstner asked about OpenAI’s reported $13 billion in revenue—a respectable figure about equal to that of Dick’s Sporting Goods, but which pales in comparison to the $1.4 trillion OpenAI has committed to investing in computing infrastructure. “First of all, we’re doing well more revenue than ...