OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?
Openai has been reported on the edge of a roughly $ 500 billion rating, a figure it would make the most valuable Private Company in the world-larger than SpaceXTiktok's elder old Bytedanceand even public giants like palantir. It's a staggering number for a business with a “Astronomical Burn Recate. “How is this self as possible?
As axios ReportsThere are actually two deals in playing: a soft bank, the company at $ 300 billion, which does not close, and a secondary sales of employee stock on a distance case $ 500 billion. Most of the cheaper shares have already been deposed, causing investors to fight over the prices.
One opening investor – who spoke on the state of anonymity, quote an NDA compared it on the morning of the Internet. “We are in one of the largest technology shifts [in history]”The investor tells me.” The outcomes remain larger when people think. “
The investor claims that the maths to invest on the $ 500 billion rating, as chatyph users, as chatyph users in the 3 million – “Half the rate” -That $ is $ 's $'
“That only would support a trillion-and-a-half-dollar business, which is a pretty well, just think about chatgpt,” says the investor. “It does not include all the rest of the game that they work on, all the business pool, all the agent goods, all the work they do on hardware.”
Trillions or dollars
The Figure of $ 5 is, guidlik, back-of-the-envelope Maths. Today, Chatgpt has 700 million weekly active users-and Less than 10 percent of her pay for it. (Openai refused on this figure.) The projections of the investor are amerence, and they seem to shorten the threat of great players like Google or Meta eat lunch of Openai. “The question of the half a-trillion dollar, the customers will be able to retain the customers the customers it has to bring its cost to a point that can, in fact, monetize at [hypothetically] $ 5 per user per month, “says Arun SundararajanIn Professor at the Stern shower School of New York University.
The bet Here is that Openai is the next Facebook or Google. For investors buy in at $ 500 billion, “they expect in two to three to three to three to three to three to three to three to three to three for,” Glenn Okun, who is also a business professor. That would mean jumping in the above public companies in the world nearly overnight. The investor says that they have a longer time horizon than that, but “Of course, an ipo is the most sensible path that the scale is given the company.” Although the investor acts, yes, yes, the company should be appreciated in more than $ 1 trillion to make the investment.
Stranger things have happened – especially after openai. In the first seven months of 2025, the business doubled their projected Annual revenues up to $ 12 billion, which suggests to bring Openai in the Moon in the Moon. Contracting company is anxious, to achieve 5 million DESCRIPTION Use this month. Not to mention something potential ads revenue could do to his bottom line. To the investor are this signs of a company with the momentum to win: “People don't like unpleasant things because most people like to have pattern match,” says the investor. “All this business has been done is unusual, from the pace of his revenue growth to the AI technology.”
