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Assertion Supported
OpenAI deploys HIPAA-regulated AI technology across UCSF
“We now have in America, it's HIPAA, I'm not sure if it's the same out here, but a HIPAA regulated version of our technology, and we are already selling this to physicians, to doctors, UCSF, it's a top leading hospital in America. Every single person there has …”
Maggie Hott Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 34:21 Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Datadog Manages All DevOps for OpenAI and Accelerated Growth
“Datadog has accelerated. Because it sells to all those leaders because it does all DevOps for open AI.”
Jason Lemkin Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 4:20 Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: OpenAI conducts annual tender offers paying engineers millions
“OpenAI for engineers does tender offers every year, where you make millions of dollars a year from working in Open.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 11:10 2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
Assertion Supported
OpenAI finished training GPT-4 in August 2022, holding it six months for safety
“We actually finished training GPT-IV in August last year, but we waited a little while before releasing it. When we first tried it out, we were all quite flabbergasted by how powerful it was, and we decided to sit on it almost six months to make sure that it w…”
OpenAI's Head of Sales Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 2:34 The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI's Head of Sales
Assertion Partly supported
OpenAI, Slack, Figma, and Airtable all started without sales commissions
“So with OpenAI, with Slack, many other, Airtable, Figma, New Relic, there's tons of companies out there that all started with this model of full salary, and it's a, you know, a normal living salary like you would give to any other product manager, marketer, en…”
Maggie Hott Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 11:08 Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: OpenAI Relies on Customer Pilots to Close Enterprise Deals
“OpenAI does pilots now. OpenAI, the hottest company on planet earth. Are you another video to close big deals? They have to do pilots.”
Jason Lemkin Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 6:40 Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Replit deploys an OpenAI-powered Architect sub-agent for big features
“We actually get an extra bonus model because when Claude on Opus talks to Replit on Sonnet, if it's a big feature, Replit brings in a sub-agent called the Architect. And the Architect, it turns out, runs on Codex and OpenAI.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 19:21 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
Assertion Contradicted
OpenAI Surpassed BloombergGPT Within Three Months of Its Launch
“Bloomberg trained a model Bloomberg GPT that outperformed the latest OpenAI model of the time. And then three months later, OpenAI shipped the new model, and it was way better.”
Jacob Effron Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 9:58 Redpoint Ventures Playbook: How Top VCs Are Really Investing in AI with Jacob Effron
Assertion Supported
Hott: OpenAI scaled from ~200 to ~1,000 employees post-ChatGPT launch
“We were about 202 150 people, and we had reached a pivotal moment. We had to scale quickly. We had to end the year at somewhere close to a thousand people.”
Maggie Hott Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 4:49 How to Build Top-Performing Sales Orgs with OpenAI's GTM Leader Maggie Hott
Assertion Supported
OpenAI has kept the ChatGPT Plus subscription unchanged for over a year
“ChatGPT Plus has been our ChatGPT subscription for over a year now, and so that's an example of something we haven't changed that I think I'm proud of and we've been thoughtful about where and when We'd change that, but it has stayed the same in the market, wh…”
Allison Harmon Dec 3, 2024 ▶ 27:00 How to Leverage Pricing and Packaging to Drive Revenue with Miro, Loom, OpenAI, and Splunk
Assertion Contradicted
Tunguz: Microsoft OpenAI customer count tripled in recent quarter
“You look at the total number of customers that are starting to use Microsoft's OpenAI technology has three X, I think, in the last quarter in the reporting.”
Tomasz Tunguz Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 4:18 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: English language averages roughly 1.3 tokens per word
“A token is almost a word. It turns out there's about 1.3 tokens per word in the English language, and you consume tokens when you put in a prompt, and then you get an output or a completion.”
OpenAI's Head of Sales Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 6:45 The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI's Head of Sales
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