{"id":981205,"date":"2025-12-20T09:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981205"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:27:45","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-on-ipo-plans-zero-per-cent-excited-to-lead-a-public-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/20\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-on-ipo-plans-zero-per-cent-excited-to-lead-a-public-company\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on IPO plans: Zero per cent excited to lead a public company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared zero interest in leading a publicly traded company. These claims come despite Altman acknowledging that the ChatGPT maker will likely need to go public to secure capital and manage growth. Speaking on the &#8220;Big Technology Podcast,&#8221; Altman said: &#8220;Am I excited to be a public company CEO? 0%.\u201d He also expressed mixed feelings about a potential initial public offering for OpenAI. \u201cAm I excited for OpenAI to be a public company? In some ways, I am, and in some ways I think it&#8217;d be really annoying,&#8221; Altman noted.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO acknowledged the practical realities pushing toward an eventual IPO but added that OpenAI needs a lot of capital and will &#8220;cross all of the shareholder limits and stuff at some point.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared zero interest in leading a publicly traded company. These claims come despite Altman acknowledging that the ChatGPT maker will likely need to go public to secure capital and manage growth. Speaking on the &#8220;Big Technology Podcast,&#8221; Altman said: &#8220;Am I excited to be a public company CEO? 0%.\u201d He also expressed mixed feelings about a potential initial public offering for OpenAI. \u201cAm I excited for OpenAI to be a public company? In some ways, I am, and in some ways I think it&#8217;d be really annoying,&#8221; Altman noted. The CEO acknowledged the practical realities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}