Asked in a 2021 VC interview to pick one company, he chose OpenAI at $10B
curious_vii · x · 2026-11-06
curiousvii recounts that in 2021, Leon Coe was asked in a VC interview: "You must return a billion dollars, but you can only invest in one company." His answer: OpenAI — which had just raised at a $10B valuation that seemed incredibly rich at the time. His reasoning: "this is going to rip a lot bigger than that." A行业 anecdote about early conviction in AI's upside.
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