{"id":983996,"date":"2026-01-08T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983996"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:27:09","slug":"openai-earmarks-50-billion-for-employee-stock-grant-pool-the-information-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/openai-earmarks-50-billion-for-employee-stock-grant-pool-the-information-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI earmarks $50 billion for employee stock grant pool, The Information reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI last \u2060fall set aside an employee stock grant pool equivalent to 10% \u200cof \u200cthe company, valued at $500 billion in \u200cOctober, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the plans. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report. OpenAI did not \u200cimmediately \u200drespond to Reuters&#8217; request \u200dfor a comment. <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has already \u200cgiven $80 billion in vested equity, which, along with the employee stock grant pool, comprises about 26% of the company, according to \u200dthe report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI last \u2060fall set aside an employee stock grant pool equivalent to 10% \u200cof \u200cthe company, valued at $500 billion in \u200cOctober, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the plans. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. OpenAI did not \u200cimmediately \u200drespond to Reuters&#8217; request \u200dfor a comment. OpenAI has already \u200cgiven $80 billion in vested equity, which, along with the employee stock grant pool, comprises about 26% of the company, according to \u200dthe report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983996","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}