Seth Figerman
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116 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 15 Jun
Seth Figerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I mean, look, what this company has publicly said is I think last year they were around $13 billion in revenue.
As of February, after they announced the mammoth funding round, they said that they were generating $2 billion in revenue a month.
So you can do the math there.
It's still a fast-growing company, but in order to justify $600 billion in infraspending, which is what they've said, you need to be growing a bit faster than that.
And Sam Altman has previously sounded quite bullish on the prospects to grow this business quite fast, up to $100 billion in revenue in the coming years.
if that's going to happen at a slower pace they might need to rethink some of their
Yeah, I mean, Ed, this is a years-long saga that's really culminating in the court case this week.
And at the heart of it, Elon is alleging that Altman and other leaders at OpenAI effectively tried to enrich themselves by pursuing a for-profit strategy.
push at OpenAI, which was originally founded by Musk, Altman, and a group of others as a nonprofit research organization.
And he's claiming that he has effectively been defrauded as part of that.
And he is asking for up to $134 billion in damages.
But in some ways, even more crucially than the amount of money he's asking for are some of the remedies for that, which range from seeking to have Altman pushed out as CEO and his other official positions at the company,
and also trying to unwind the for-profit conversion that was completed late last year.
That's right.
Yeah, I mean, these were two close colleagues for a time who were instrumental in the founding of OpenAI more than a decade ago.
Elon, in some ways, is very much the benefactor of the organization in its early days.
Sam has previously said that he considers Elon Musk to be a hero of his.
But there was a falling out within the first few years of the company's launch, seemingly in OpenAI's telling of it, because Elon Musk wanted more control.
He wanted it to operate more
As part of Tesla, he seemed to want to be CEO of the organization himself.
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