Nick Turley

ChatGPT originally was entirely free, and the reason for that was that it was intended to be a demo.

and we were going to wind it down after a month.

We then realized that the demo went viral and people loved the demo, and it was actually a product.

But we realized that to be a product, you can't take the product down every time you're at capacity.

So we shipped subscriptions simply because it could shape the demand.

It was a way of gracefully turning users away when we had to turn away someone.

We've got about 10% of the world coming to us now, 90% left to go, right?

There's so much more opportunity.

Thank you for having me, Puru.

That's true.

Yeah, clearly a total master plan.

The only through line in how I made any sort of employment decision has been entirely people-based, so I don't claim any credit for joining OpenAI or predicting ChatGPT or anything like it, but I hit up someone who I admire a lot, who I got to know at Dropbox,

Joanne, who worked here at the time, and I asked her to get off the Dolly 2 waitlist, and she told me I had an interview if I wanted to get off the waitlist.

So I took the bait and got totally nerd sniped in the process, and here I am.

There you go.

The Dolly 2 waitlist will get you.

It's a great recruiting tool.

It's funny, right?

Because it's such a young product.

It's been to your point three and a half years.