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SpaceX's $2T IPO, Karpathy Joins Anthropic & the SaaSpocalypse — ft. Dr Dan | EP14
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OpenAI's $2M Credits for YC Startups: Lock-In or Generosity?
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OpenAI is giving $2M in credits to every YC startup — roughly $400M total. The real play: startups use those tokens to onboard users, burning through the credits and locking into OpenAI's ecosystem. When the credits run out, they keep paying. Sam gets a hand in every promising YC company.
OpenAI offered $2 million in credits to every YC startup; with ~200 companies in the batch, that's roughly $400 million in tokens given away.
Dan had dismissed Anthropic as marketing over substance. Then Andrej Karpathy — an OpenAI founding member — joined as an R&D researcher. Dan's take: Karpathy must know something the rest of us don't. One hire flipped the entire bull case.
