Gil: OpenAI and Anthropic are fastest companies ever to $10B revenue
Elad Gil · #2297 Elad Gil backed 40 unicorns. This is next · Feb 24, 2026 · at 10:19
Investor Elad Gil and Andrew Warner discuss how global internet distribution has accelerated enterprise AI revenue growth to unprecedented speeds.
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“OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are the fastest companies to ten billion dollars in revenue basically ever, right?”
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