The Ledger
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Smith: OpenAI has reached $1 billion in enterprise revenue
“There's the reason that OpenAI has a billion dollars in enterprise revenue today. Out of nowhere, quote unquote, out of nowhere.”
Smith: I was among the first 10,000 users on Twitter in 2006
“I remember being in the first 10,000 users in Twitter in 2006”
Smith's blog post on 'not giving a f*ck' drew 10,000 daily visits
“And so when I wrote this piece, all of a sudden I ranked number one for years for how to not give a fuck for years. And so, 10,000 visits a day or some shit would go to my website for this idea of not giving a fuck, right?”
Julien Smith raised about $200 million for his startup Breather
“About two hundred million dollars.”
Gary Vaynerchuk was the first angel investor in Breather
“I take the call from Gary, and he goes something like, I don't have time to advise, because I was just like, I was like, well, he even, like, does he really know me that well? Is he, and he's like, yeah, Julian has been around a super long time. Yeah, I'll def…”
Julien Smith made millions online in his twenties doing 'nothing'
“Previous to our generation, you couldn't have like some 20 year old kid that's like, yeah, I made a couple million dollars on online, kind of doing nothing. And then I went on and did some other thing, but I was one of those people.”