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United857 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I’ve joined Anthropic

He’s a founder of OpenAI —- likely a billionaire if he held on to his share

trollbridge 34 days ago [–]

It's still quite interesting to me how a founder of a nonprofit can become a billionaire by having shares in it.

nikcub 34 days ago | [–]

Because they later founded a for-profit to raise the capital required in the AI talent and compute race.

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