This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
The most anticipated initial public offering in generations is coming.
Sam Altman built a company on promises. Cure cancer. End poverty. Deliver intelligence to every human on Earth. In exchange, he asked for something modest: your data, your trust, and a trillion dollars.
OpenAI IPO traces the arc of the most consequential tech startup in history, from Altman's early days as a deal-maker who created a failed location app to the leader of the AI chatbot revolution. Along the way, it examines the man behind the machine: a skilled operator whose former board members, co-founders, and mentors have described, in documented internal communications, as someone with a consistent pattern of dishonesty.
The story doesn't end with ChatGPT. It ends with an IPO that will force, for the first time, a public accounting of what his company actually is, rather than what it has claimed to be. At its center is a question that public markets will soon be pressed to answer: what is Open.AI truly worth, and who pays if the answer is less than advertised? The technology is real. The potential is genuine. But so is the gap between the future Altman has been selling and the one the numbers describe.
Part biography, part financial investigation, part warning, this book is essential reading for anyone with a retirement account, a job, or a stake in what artificial intelligence becomes.
