Elon Musk Is Right About OpenAI But for the Wrong Reasons https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-06/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-puts-spotlight-on-his-own-net-worth
Fast-growing technology companies exaggerate constantly. This isn’t to say they lie; it’s just that when you’re raising large sums of money, it helps to present an impressionist picture of your current business rather than a photorealistic one. Google’s founders talked about organizing “the world’s information” back when they weren’t even the most successful search engine from Stanford University; Airbnb’s founders argued that vacation rentals would, by some unknown alchemy, end hatred; and WeWork spun a fairly conventional real estate startup into a pseudo-spiritual lifestyle brand.
