Simon Willison · · 1 min read

Quoting John Gruber

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5th May 2026

So it’s well known that Y Combinator owns some stake in OpenAI. But how big is that stake? This seems like devilishly difficult information to obtain. I asked around and a little birdie who knows several OpenAI investors came back with an answer: Y Combinator owns about 0.6 percent of OpenAI. At OpenAI’s current $852 billion valuation, that’s worth over $5 billion.

John Gruber, Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI

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