When did the speaker say they started OpenAI?

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How We Found Gold In The AI Boom!

24 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Brief interview excerpt from a YouTube video in which the speaker recalls starting OpenAI in August 2022 and describes the early generative-AI period as a "gold rush," emphasizing being actively involved ('in the water') as crucial to finding opportunity amid heavy competition.

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August 2022.

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Did you ever think that it was too late? How did you have the conviction to do it? We started OpenAI 2022, August. We were there very, very early. So I don't think we're too late. But there were definitely times I felt like the space was very, very crowded. I felt like genai, this era is almost like gold rush. At that time. So many people came to California, right? The analogy is that when you came to California and then there was a lot of gold, let's say, and then some people would, like jump into the river and then start, like digging and like staying on the side and then looking. So I felt like if there's really any gold in the water, then it must be the people who are already in the river that found it instead of people, you know, that stayed on the side. So I felt like as long as we were in the water, I felt like we could find something.