OpenAI moves faster than any company Kevin Weil has ever worked at, including Twitter and Instagram, and he has high confidence in the company's future because of its deep bench of talented people.
Weil expresses strong confidence in OpenAI's trajectory, citing its unmatched pace relative to prior employers like Twitter and Instagram and its unusually deep talent bench, while acknowledging execution risk from serious competitors. ✦ AI generated
Kevin Weil · BG2 Pod · 2025-06-21 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 19:20
“What's your level of confidence that you guys will reach a hundred billion of revenue in the future and kind of be that AI defining company?”
This place OpenAI moves faster than any company I've ever worked at in my life. And I thought I had worked at places that move pretty fast. I think it's, you know, we have amazing people on the team. We really try and push decision-making and responsibility down into the teams.
verbatim transcript · starts at 19:20
19:20I mean this place OpenAI moves faster than any company I've ever worked at in my life. Wow. And I thought I had worked at places that move pretty fast. That's a big Twitter, Instagram. Yeah, nothing nothing compares. I think it's, you know, we have amazing people on the team. Uh we really try and and uh push decision-m and responsibility down into the teams. I think in an AI world, you
19:41need to do that because the the AI models are so new. We don't you don't you don't top down know all of the capabilities. opport by the way publicly. It's why we release early and often. We try and get it in people's hands because then they also get a chance to figure out what the models can be. So I I have a lot of confidence in us. We got to execute.
20:11Yeah. Like we've got to we we've got to be on top of our game because we have a a very serious set of competitors and um and that's real. But but man, I like all right. It's also like I just feel good like when you look at this team, you Sarah Fiji, Greg Brockman, Sam, etc. It's such even though the company's small bill, it's an extraordinarily deep bench of
20:35talented people who've done this in other places. Not only does it come down to execution as investor, like I of course want them to succeed as an investor, but in terms of defining the company that's going to do the right things in this moment. I feel good to have this company in the lead because, you know, these are great people that I think are going to do the right things.
20:55And so, it's great to have you helping lead the way. You're nice to say it. I I think, you know, we tend to get unfair the people that you named. Uh, you know, I'm beyond excited for Fiji to start. All the other people you named, like we tend to get unfair amounts of credit. It's I could give you a hundred names of the people that are doing the real work
21:12and are like actually the reason that open is successful. Um, and you know, hopefully we can tell their stories over time, too. We will. We will. All right. Thanks for being here, man. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Take care. [Music] As a reminder to everybody, just our opinions, not investment advice.