OpenAI researcher mocks startups: IMO gold winners to resell tokens in a React app
willdepue · x · 2026-10-28
OpenAI's Will Depue quips: 'who knew you needed so many IMO Gold winners to resell tokens in a React app.'
The quoted post likens Cognition CEO Scott Wu to the Asian quant in The Big Short — a guileless genius paraded by a savvy backer to dazzle enterprise IT buyers with Olympiad credentials, mocking how AI coding startups market themselves.
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