OpenAI: the curse of the expectations treadmill #ai #ainews #openai #googleai
OpenAI: the curse of the expectations treadmill #ai #ainews #openai #googleai
Description
Rapidly growing companies often struggle to manage the mounting pressure of unrealistic investor growth expectations
Transcript
So and I think Open AI is actually a perfect example where you've gone from what zero to 900 million users in, you know, two or three years and so however you want to look at it, that growth card is astronomical. And what what other people start to do and this book frames it from the lens of an investor, what other people start to do is they start to impose expectations on you. So even even with public businesses, you see have analyst estimates, right? They're estimating what's the price target? What are they what are they thinking that you will achieve and and and it does apply to private companies as well. And so what they're looking at with open AI is they're basically saying, alright, they got they got to 900 million in a couple years. How quick to get to a billion? How quick to get to two billion? And what the, you know, what the theory effectively does is it says

