Sam Altman is 0% excited about being CEO of a public company — but "OpenAI needs lots of capital and is going to cross all of the shareholder limits"

Last week, multiple reports emerged suggesting that OpenAI is currently in talks to raise $100 billion from investors at a $750 billion valuation. As you may know, the AI firm's market valuation is currently $500 billion after the sale of $6.6 billion in shares from current and former staff in October.

If OpenAI manages to raise $100 billion from investors in its next funding round, the firm's market share is expected to grow by 50%.

Interestingly, the company is also laying groundwork to go public and may file with regulators as early as the second half of 2026. Market experts and analysts claim it might be one of the largest IPOs in history with a potential valuation of around $1 trillion.

More recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his thoughts on the company’s potential evolution into a public entity during an interview on the Big Technology Podcast. The executive indicated that he wasn't excited about leading a public company.

While Altman indicated that "it's wonderful to be a private company," he admitted that the firm still needs a lot of capital. He indicated that the company would need to cross shareholder limits to achieve this feat.

"I do think it's cool that public markets get to participate in value creation," Altman added.

This news comes amid rising competition from the likes of Google, following the successful launch of Gemini 3 with advanced capabilities across coding, video, and images. The competitive threat rattled CEO Sam Altman into "code red."

However, we recently learned that OpenAI declares code red multiple times in a year as a response to competitive threats. "It's good to be paranoid and act quickly when a potential competitive threat emerges," Altman concluded.

Do you have any thoughts on Sam Altman's leadership? Will OpenAI retain its morals when it becomes a public company? Let me know what you think.

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