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Discourage Nonprofit-To-For-Profit Startup Path
Any startup considering starting as a nonprofit and adding a for-profit arm later should be heavily discouraged from doing so; OpenAI would have structured itself differently from the start had it known what would happen, and laws make exploiting this path for tax savings difficult, so it won't set a precedent.
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Sam AltmanEvidence Quote
“I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding a for-profit arm later.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:04 AM
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