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Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup

39 points by evo_9

by blitzar

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Is the "mic drop" in the headline refering to how bad a deal this is for any startup that takes it?

by shimman

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What a great way to boost usage before an IPO. Definitely not scammy behavior!

by 1123581321

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This sounds like how you get (or at least used to get) free AWS and Azure credits in your first x years as a startup or until you met revenue thresholds. You wouldn't get as many, but, you didn't have to give up a share of your company, to my knowledge.
Were there actually larger credit grants that would've been in exchange for equity, or, is OpenAI doing something novel?

by jonahbenton

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The desperation is strong in this one

by KHRZ

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If that's in API price, they may be better of with the subscription.

by bravetraveler

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The first taste is free, with a certain perspective on equity

by xg15

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Is the term "tokenmaxxing" now really used unironically and as a desirable thing?

by dude250711

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Adding more layers to circular investments.

by dTal

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Reminder that "$2 million worth of OpenAI tokens" is meaningless and codes for "as much access to OpenAI infrastructure as Sam Altman feels like letting you have".

by bigbuppo

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Hey, it's the thing I said was going to happen. Thank's for taking my suggestion, Sam.

by just_once

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I thought code was free now

by mawadev

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Very odd shadow economy that is in the making here.

by Rp8yXmdmr

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> $2M in OpenAI tokens
How about real money or even Apple Gift cards?

by dbbk

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No thanks

by moogly

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Sounds like they have an oversupply of these tokens.

by seattle_spring

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> i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.
Am I the only one who gets a physical, visceral churning in their gut when they read/hear someone unironically using the term "tokenmaxxing"?
This is the absolute worst timeline, and I'm embarrassed to even be in an industry adjacent to these dorks.

by phendrenad2

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Maybe they can borrow a few OpenAI engineers too?

by cyanydeez

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so weve officially reached the gambling sddiction portion of the LLM show. good luck FOMO