OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
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đď¸ 2 June 2026
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Summary
(0:00) OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar joins the show!
(0:31) How OpenAI thinks about its IPO timeline
(3:31) OpenAI, Anthropic, Google: The AI arms race
(7:43) Navigating the compute crunch and AI bottlenecks, device preview!
(15:53) OpenAI's economics
(26:08) Push into chips, the cloud
(29:32) OpenAI's ad business and strategy
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| 0:00.0 | Open AI's CFO, Sarah Fryer. |
| 0:02.0 | We've got to get right to it. |
| 0:04.0 | You have just completed what I regard as the most successful fundraising round in history. |
| 0:09.0 | We're going to raise actually north of $120 billion. |
| 0:13.0 | We think AI is the biggest era that we've seen today. |
| 0:17.0 | We're just starting to understand what it's going to mean for global productivity. |
| 0:25.1 | And with that, you know, hopefully more affluence, better lives for everyone. |
| 0:29.3 | Luck is whatever the preparation meets opportunity, but you got to grab it. |
| 0:40.6 | Long time listener, first time caller, quite exciting to get to hang out with all the bros here. Hello. We weren't sure how to start this off, but I thought the best thing was to allow our erstwhile Cryptozar to maybe save |
| 0:46.6 | comments. I saw an article today. I think it might have been in the Wall Street Journal that |
| 0:50.7 | the perception is that there's an advantage to IPOing earlier if you're an AI company. |
| 0:58.0 | So now we know SpaceX is going. |
| 1:00.1 | And then the question is, when are OpenAI and Anthropic going to go? |
| 1:05.4 | And I'm curious, how do you think about that? |
| 1:07.9 | Do you think there is a little bit of a race on? |
| 1:10.2 | Or, you know, you haven't made a decision about that yet? |
| 1:12.6 | Like, in the end, an IPO, I say this to the team all the time. |
| 1:16.4 | It's a milestone. |
| 1:17.8 | It is not a destination. |
| 1:19.5 | Do not run your company as if that's some sort of destination. |
| 1:22.7 | It's just another way to fundraise. |
| 1:24.9 | We just did, you heard me on the sizzle reel, raise $122 billion in March, |
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