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Comcast Splits, OpenAI Weighs IPO Delay, and Buttigieg Targeted

Explore episode Jun 30, 2026

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OpenAI's IPO Delay and the Great Flippening

At 23:40 · chapter starts 23:10

Kara Swisher opens with the reported news that OpenAI is considering delaying its IPO until next year, noting Sam Altman is reportedly holding out for a $1 trillion valuation despite an $850 billion March valuation, leaked financials showing nearly 8x growth in losses and $34 billion in spending, and a tepid SpaceX IPO complicating the market backdrop. Scott Galloway immediately reframes this as an individual company story, not a systemic one — coining 'the great flippening' to describe Anthropic's rapid displacement of OpenAI as the dominant AI platform. He argues that CEOs are actively blaming OpenAI models and swapping to Anthropic expecting greater ROI, comparing the market-share flip to 'RC Cola one morning becoming the market leader.' The core IPO problem, Scott contends, is that a side-by-side S-1 comparison would expose two damning facts simultaneously: OpenAI has lost significant momentum to Anthropic, and it's spending cash 'promiscuously' relative to its rival, which projects breaking even by 2030. He predicts the second half of 2026 will be defined by Sam Altman dramatically cutting CapEx commitments to clean up the books before any public offering, and that this pullback will ripple through Oracle, CoreWeave, and SoftBank. Kara and Scott also debate whether Anthropic should move fast while it's on top — Scott says Dario Amodei should race to the public markets immediately.

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