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by bmitc 54 days ago
> OpenAI is worth many multiples of that.

How?
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senordevnyc 54 days ago
Because they recently issued shares at a price many multiples of that, and people bought them. How else would you define financial worth?
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andriy_koval 54 days ago
I would use your number adjusted by some demand elasticity curve.
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tanseydavid 54 days ago
The "back-of-the-napkin" only has enough room to estimate based on recently issued share price. Seems reasonable to me.
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andriy_koval 54 days ago
Sure, for napkin level math you can go with this, and multiply by some simple multiplier, I like 70%.
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bmitc 53 days ago
Does speculation equal worth?
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