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520 points kevinyew | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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thor-rodrigues ◴[04 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45129033[source]▶
I’m not sure whether I find it more worrisome or fascinating that we live in a world where a company that, as far as I know, has never generated a single dollar in revenue has managed to exist for over five years, employ more than 100 people, and still get acquired for this amount.

This isn’t criticism or sarcasm — I’m genuinely impressed, but also very curious about the rationale behind it.

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trhway ◴[04 Sep 25 18:59 UTC] No.45130950[source]▶
less than a $6M/head - it is a steal. Not even counting whatever IP they have.
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rafram ◴[04 Sep 25 19:09 UTC] No.45131051[source]▶
How much do you think it costs to hire people?
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trhway ◴[04 Sep 25 19:38 UTC] No.45131377[source]▶
you think Mark didn't know it when he hired that guy for $250 millions? Anyway, you probably mean an individual hiring cost. Which is a totally different case from hiring and building a multifunctional team of 100. Look around at aqui-hires to understand the price, especially when we're talking about people who has been working with AI products.
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1. rafram ◴[04 Sep 25 21:44 UTC] No.45132569[source]▶
$250 million was for a top researcher with more experience than almost anyone else in designing and training massive models.

As far as I know, Dia just calls OpenAI’s API. I’m sure their employees know a lot about using AI at this point, but so does everyone else who’s built an OpenAI wrapper.