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bdangubiclast Tuesday at 10:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

not that I disagree but would it be fair to say though that we have seen this before where it turned out OK? say Uber? Amazon?


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jcranmerlast Tuesday at 11:01 PM

IIRC, current estimates are that OpenAI is losing as much money a year as Uber or Amazon lost in their entire lifetime of unprofitability. Also, both Uber and Amazon spent their unprofitable years having a clear roadmap to profitability. OpenAI's roadmap to profitability is "???"

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oh_my_goodnesslast Tuesday at 10:55 PM

To become the next Uber, do I just need to run huge losses?

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toxic72last Tuesday at 11:11 PM

To my knowledge Amazon never debt financed their ops like this

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