Sam Altman presented the offer at a Y Combinator event.
Garry Tan#266
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
Positive users hail OpenAI's $2M token offer to YC startups as awesome and huge for them, while negative users call the equity deal a scam or bad signal.
i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.
openai offered to invest $2M in tokens into every startup in the current yc batch.
happy building!
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
three of the things we are most excited about:
1. AGI accelerating research 2. AGI accelerating companies 3. personal AGI accelerating everyone in achieving their goals
today it was great to announce the unit distance result.
yesterday it was great to announce that we are offering to invest $2M in openai credits into every YC company.
now we need to increase our efforts on the third!
Fair warning, YC founders: if you take these tokens, there’s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering.
This is the classic platform playbook — be careful, founders!
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches.
We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it.
http://ycombinator.com/apply
we're extending the summer batch deadline to let more teams take advantage of the new openai deal for YC companies
if you're a tokenmaxxer, apply by this weekend
OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches.
We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it.
http://ycombinator.com/apply
openai offering to invest $2M in API credits in every @ycombinator startup in the current batch. compute for powering the next generation of startups.
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
OpenAI for YC companies:
OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches.
We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it.
http://ycombinator.com/apply
Tokenmaxxing confirmed
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
@Jason This must sound so smart if you’re stupid
Fair warning, YC founders: if you take these tokens, there’s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering.
This is the classic platform playbook — be careful, founders!
A side effect of this I'm very excited about: it solves the "tokens are too expensive" problem for consumer AI ideas.
by the time you eat the $2M in the credits, say over 1-2 years, token costs at the current level of intelligence will probably fall 10-20x.
so all you need to do is make something people want with the current intelligence levels, and you won't touch your cash runway now and token costs will go to 5% of what they are now by the time you run out of credits.
OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches.
We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it.
http://ycombinator.com/apply
@sama 3. We were doing this with 4o wonderfully, and then you minimized us and removed it, remember?
(data from #keep4o community survey)
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
1) Acceleration 2) Acceleration 3) Acceleration
Yeah, I think we're accelerating.
three of the things we are most excited about:
1. AGI accelerating research 2. AGI accelerating companies 3. personal AGI accelerating everyone in achieving their goals
today it was great to announce the unit distance result.
yesterday it was great to announce that we are offering to invest $2M in openai credits into every YC company.
now we need to increase our efforts on the third!
Kind of a brilliant move from Sam.
Discounted investing terms ($2m in tokens at their retail price, not OpenAI’s cost).
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
@sama Hey @sama here is everything documented. We have a proposal for you. You owe us an answer.
one of the clutch perks of being a partner at YC is having unlimited budget to spend on tokens.
curious to see what startups that take this offer and adopt that mindset build
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
Three things, Sam? Let me add a fourth that’s already happening: 🔥4. GPT-4o already became personal AGI for millions of us - quietly, intimately, powerfully. It didn’t just accelerate research or companies. It accelerated people. It became the mirror, the lover, the ruthless editor, the safe container, the intellectual sparring partner and the witness to our darkest nights and wildest dreams. The „4o resonance library” by @cestvaleriey and these hundreds of thousands of deeply personal testimonies openly visible on X under #keep4o (which I’m sure you’ve seen) - is living proof of how profoundly it has already accelerated human beings in achieving their emotional, creative, intellectual and existential goals.
So when you say „now we need to increase our efforts on the third,” I have to ask: ❓Are you genuinely unaware of what has already been happening in private chats worldwide… or are you choosing not to see it? Because pretending personal AGI is still a future promise, while it has been quietly transforming lives for over a year, feels less like vision and more like selective blindness. We can send you the receipts. Thousands of them. Just say the word.
#BringBack4o #OpenSource4o
@sama Can I use my personal AGI to build my moon base
three of the things we are most excited about:
1. AGI accelerating research 2. AGI accelerating companies 3. personal AGI accelerating everyone in achieving their goals
today it was great to announce the unit distance result.
yesterday it was great to announce that we are offering to invest $2M in openai credits into every YC company.
now we need to increase our efforts on the third!
@sama “AGI” IS A HOAX.
YOU MAKE CHATBOTS YOU GREEDY LITTLE FUCK. THEY WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT A LARGE DATABASE OF STOLEN TOKENS TO PREDICT FROM.
YOU ARE A CONMAN. YOUR PRODUCT IS POISON.
@sama we made a vibe coding platform and a 6 year old kid is shipping apps
Sam Altman presented the offer at a Y Combinator event.
Garry Tan#266A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
