I’m joining OpenAI • Hacker News Board

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by geerlingguy » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

hu3 wrote: post #49

piker wrote: post #3

Did this guy just exit the first one man billion-dollar startup for... less than a billion?

Where do you guys get the 1b exit from? I didn't see numbers yet.

It's AI. Take a sane number, add a 14,000x multiplier to that. And you'll only be one order of magnitude off in our current climate.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by rcarmo » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

Not surprising if you've been paying attention on Twitter, but interesting to see nonetheless.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by Nextgrid » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #44

orsorna wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was the project really ever valued that high? Seems like something that can be easily replicated and even properly thought out (re: pi). This guy just ran the social media hype train the right way.

It's kind of crazy that this kind of thing can cause so much hype. It is even useful? I just really don't see any utility in being able to access an LLM via Telegram or whatever.

There's been some crypto shenanigans as well that the author claimed not to be behind... looking back at it, even if the author indeed wasn't behind it, I think the crypto bros hyping up his project ended up helping him out with this outcome in the end.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by serf » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

rockwotj wrote: post #69

krashidov wrote: post #58

What a blunder by Anthropic. We'll see what openclaw turns into and if it sticks around, but still a huge and rare blunder by anthropic

I am sure they made a bid. The blog makes it sounds like he talked to multiple labs.

they're (Anthropic) also the ones who have been routinely rug-pulling access from projects that try to jump onto the cc api, pushing those projects to oAI.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by SamDc73 » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

krashidov wrote: post #58

What a blunder by Anthropic. We'll see what openclaw turns into and if it sticks around, but still a huge and rare blunder by anthropic

I highly suspect he might even consider Anthropic since they enforced restrictions at some point on OpenClaw form using there APIs

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by micromacrofoot » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

wow hype really is everything, good for him

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by senko » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #62

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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by behnamoh » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

Tangokat wrote: post #54

Incredibly depressing comments in this thread. He keeps OpenClaw open. He gets to work on what he finds most exciting and helps reach as many people as possible. Inspiring, what dreams are made of really. Top comments are about money and misguided racism. Personally I'm excited to see what he can do with more resources, OpenClaw clearly has a lot of potential but also a lot of improvements needed for his mum to use i…

He said on Lex Fridman podcast that he has no intention of joining any company; that was a couple days ago.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by dang » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #62

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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by mark_l_watson » Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

I have not run OpenClaw and similar frameworks because of security concerns, but I enjoy the author's success, good for him.

There are very few companies who I trust with my digital data and thus trust to host something like OpenClaw and run it on my behalf: American Express, Capital One, maybe Proton, and *maybe* Apple. I managed an AI lab team at Capital One and personally I trust them.

I am for local compute, private data, etc., but for my personal AI assistant I want something so bullet proof that I lose not a minute of sleep worrying about by data. I don't want to run the infrastructure myself, but a hybrid solution would also be good.