In the largest venture-capital-backed investment round of all time, OpenAI has successfully raised $6.6 billion from its most gullible brilliant and handsome friends. This gives OpenAI an imaginary…
“retail investors” is a bit of a term of art, counterpointed to “institutional investors”. translations: “public market investors”, “people whose whole thing is doing investment”
institutionals are The Investment Firms Whose Names You Hear About, and they invest in the still-private (at the time) company, which allows the two parties involved to set specific terms and commitments and preferences, etc
the game that’s been played by a bunch of bayfuckers for a couple years now is as follows:
pour money into something, whether bullshit or not
hype the everliving fuck out of it
spend enough to destroy/outlive “related”/“relevant” competition, if necessary
if still alive, live long enough to go public
pull in piles of retail market money
sell and get out before the hot air escapes the balloon
(optional) write about Your Incredible Journey
what’s quite frustrating is how often this still works, because of dynamics of FOMO and other shit
so that when genAI goes down its our savings that go “pop”?
as to this, It’s Complicated™️. depends on whether the places your money is kept ends up getting allocated into shares on shit like this, etc. it could or couldn’t happen, and the only real way to know is to keep an eye on the financial-entity decision-makers in the entities involved
“retail investors” is a bit of a term of art, counterpointed to “institutional investors”. translations: “public market investors”, “people whose whole thing is doing investment”
institutionals are The Investment Firms Whose Names You Hear About, and they invest in the still-private (at the time) company, which allows the two parties involved to set specific terms and commitments and preferences, etc
the game that’s been played by a bunch of bayfuckers for a couple years now is as follows:
what’s quite frustrating is how often this still works, because of dynamics of FOMO and other shit
as to this, It’s Complicated™️. depends on whether the places your money is kept ends up getting allocated into shares on shit like this, etc. it could or couldn’t happen, and the only real way to know is to keep an eye on the financial-entity decision-makers in the entities involved