Turley: ChatGPT was the first OpenAI release without a waitlist
Nick Turley · Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI) · Aug 9, 2025 · at 48:00
Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, discusses how launching publicly without a waitlist fueled ChatGPT's initial adoption.
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“Actually, you know, we were debating waitlist, no waitlist because we really knew we couldn't scale the engineering systems. And, you know, the fact that there was No waitlist, which no open AI release had worked like that before.”
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