Azeem Azhar

So the first thing I would say is there's clearly a path to success that emerges for OpenAI based on the work that we did.

One of the big drags is this 20% Microsoft cut they have to pay.

So they did this deal early on in order to get distribution and compute.

Actually, I think it was years ago, right before ChatGPT, where Microsoft took 20% of the sort of top line revenue.

And that drag does get in the way quite a lot of like an independent, successful business.

And that's going to be a commercial negotiation, as we've seen between Microsoft and OpenAI.

It's unlikely that Microsoft will, you know, shoot the prize pet on that journey.

And I think what I was able to therefore see was certain of the levers that they have to

control on that journey.

As Jaime says, they're going to need a lot of money to get there.

I think the other thing, just as a, you know, as a contrast was we had often written about

how OpenAI was trying to capture a lot of different fronts at the same time.

So it was trying to capture the sovereign national government front.

They were very early with their large compute infrastructure commitments through Stargate.

They wanted to get the enterprise.

They wanted to get universities.

They wanted to get consumers in lots of different ways.

And that often flew foul of actually how Y Combinator, which Sam used to run,

would encourage founders to work, right?

It's like, find a beachhead, stick to the beachhead, and then grow.