An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about building OpenAI and ChatGPT, and what it means to be an accidental consumer tech company.

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company Thursday, March 20, 2025 Listen to Podcast Listen to this post: Good morning, This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup, which means we don’t have real data about the business. At the same time, OpenAI is clearly one of the defining companies of this era, and potentially historically significant. To that end

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