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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline Monologue, I'm your host Ed Zetron. It's gonna be a double monologue week, after last week's dramatic exclusive I've been slammed with interviews and personal life stuff that made it feel like I was being hit in the head with a pool noodle 24-7. Feeling a lot better now, but nevertheless, this is where I need to focus myself.
I've also been enjoying a lot of the responses to my exclusive about OpenAI's 2024 and 2025 financials.
Now, some have been mighty confident about inference being profitable due to a $7.5 billion cost of revenue on $13.07 billion in revenue, but overlooked my reporting from last year, verified by the Financial Times, by the way, that showed OpenAI spent $8.67 billion specifically on inference in the first nine months of 2025.
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Chapter 2: What does Ed Zitron mean by Silicon Valley as a cargo cult?
Nevertheless, this is Silicon Valley now. Silicon Valley is just a cult. It's a cargo cult where everyone's trying to shuffle shit around, put things in the right order to try and usher in the next Steve Jobs or the next Bill Gates. You ever notice as well that that's all they talk about? It's always the guys. It's never the product.
You also ever notice that all of these extremely well-paid AI guys like Noam Chazir, who left Google and got bought for $2.7 billion by Google to go back to Google, then went to OpenAI a month ago. What do you think he did at Google? What do you think Barrett Zoff, who left OpenAI to went to Thinking Machines, then he came back to OpenAI and now he's left OpenAI. What do you think he's done?
And that Andrej Karpathy, he just went to Anthropic, and he wasn't doing anything for two years. Isn't it weird that Andrej Karpathy, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, formerly of Tesla, he sat around for two years and really didn't do anything. He had that Eureka Labs education startup. Nothing happened with that.
It's almost as if the Valley moves around different forms of symbology, hoping that when they're in the right place, the next era of growth will begin. And doing this allows them to get away from the horrible fact that they're out of hyper growth ideas, that they don't have the people who have the ideas anymore.
The original iPhone was created by a competing team, Tony Fidel and John Forstall, I believe, the software and hardware teams coming together and actually building something. People with real industrial expertise. The Valley now is just, I don't know, trading different kinds of AI scientists and mathematicians in the hopes that one of them can usher in the digital god. It's fucking depressing.
It's depressing, and make no mistake, it will lead Silicon Valley to its ruin. Faith can't fill your belly or cover $1.1 trillion in spending commitments or magic up the more than $2 trillion in revenue that big tech needs to make AI worth it by 2030. I don't think it can pay Larry Ellison's bills either. In fact, Faith can't really do much other than create speculative wealth.
And speculative wealth can't pay for everything forever. I'll catch you on Friday. This has been Better Offline, and I've been Ed Zitron.
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Chapter 3: How does OpenAI's financial strategy reflect Silicon Valley's culture?
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