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Sam Altman $2 Million in OpenAI AI Tokens for Entire YC Cohort - Startups Selling Equity for Garbage

2026-05-27 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@NJ-wb1cz 2026-05-27

OpenAI wants to steal all code from all startups in YCombinator. Not really that complicated.

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@kenmurphy4259 2026-05-27

They’re getting desperate, the masses don’t care about their snake oil…..

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@adamaustino 2026-05-27

Sam’s magic beans. Everyone is beanmaxxing!

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@AArata63 2026-05-27

Even if AI was half successful as they tell us, the huge lack of electricity to power them is a big chokehold on them. Electricity will get so expensive that none of them would turn a profit, which they already don't.

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@popps33 2026-05-27

Suspicious !! I’d say no because $2million of credits can lose its utility value when credit prices goes up.

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@ergindemir7366 2026-05-27

My startup is worth 2 trillion dollars.

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@PoisonLoops 2026-05-27

I'm guilty of hauling old comic books around for 40 years

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@Ultrajamz 2026-05-27

Sounds like gambling to me, he is taking money people invested in him and is diversifying it gambling on a wide swath of startups hoping one makes it big

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@liberteus 2026-05-27

When you're losing billions every months, wasting another million is 1/1000th (even less). Billionaires are on another planet.

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@signifocanvas 2026-05-27

I asked GPT whether we can use OpenAI GPT model tokens to buy a big mac in the future. It said yes.

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