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618 people scored this
Zebra
42
Community
50
618 people scored this
Gap
Crowd vs Zebra
+8
- CommandZ 73 · C 62-11
- InfluenceZ 90 · C 100+10
- AuthorityZ 38 · C 42+4
- WealthZ 78 · C 75-3
Stay on the frontier model frontier
Our read: OpenAI's power is being the default API and brand for 'serious' AI — that requires constant capability leads.
Receipts
- Stay on the frontier model frontierAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch for Model releases, safety incidents, and Microsoft dependency terms.
Build the AI buildout at national scale
Chips, datacentres, power, capital and distribution sit with different people. Public announcements (e.g. Stargate) put several of them in the same programme. Receipts below are the moves; the read is that the buildout is coordinated capacity, not one company's project.
Their angle OpenAI / models
Receipts
- The Stargate datacentre programme was announced from the White House with OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank attached.Reuters — Stargate AI infrastructure announcement, January 2025
- Nvidia supplies the accelerators that hyperscaler AI buildouts depend on.Money Zebra editorial observation — source pull pending
- Hyperscaler capex guidance across Microsoft, Meta, Google and Oracle has been revised upward for AI capacity.Money Zebra editorial observation — source pull pending
Watch for Who gets power contracts and grid interconnects. Compute is easier to announce than electricity.
Also on this (8)
- Jensen HuangNvidia / chips
- Larry EllisonOracle / datacentres
- Satya NadellaMicrosoft / cloud
- Mark ZuckerbergMeta / distribution
- Sundar PichaiGoogle / distribution
- Elon MuskxAI / Tesla AI stack
- Marc Andreessena16z capital
- Dario AmodeiAnthropic / models
Federal AI rules and state pre-emption
Documented moves include a White House AI/crypto policy post and industry spending on AI policy races. State AI statutes and federal pre-emption are the live policy fight — listed as facts in receipts, not as a heroes-vs-villains board.
Their angle OpenAI / federal standard interest
Receipts
- A White House AI and crypto czar post was created and filled from the venture world (David Sacks).Reuters — David Sacks named White House AI and crypto czar, December 2024
- Industry-funded political vehicles have formed specifically to spend on AI policy races.Money Zebra editorial observation — source pull pending
- California and other states have enacted or advanced AI statutes; federal pre-emption of those laws is an active legislative topic.Money Zebra editorial observation — source pull pending
Watch for Any federal AI bill text that includes a pre-emption clause.
Also on this (6)
- David SacksWhite House AI/crypto policy seat
- Marc Andreessena16z / policy spending
- Ben Horowitza16z / policy spending
- Peter ThielNetwork / capital
- Mark ZuckerbergMeta / open-source policy interest
- Elon MuskxAI / policy interest
Receipts are sourced. The read is ours. You decide.
Embedded in daily workflows
OpenAI is infrastructure for customers — switching costs and habit keep challengers at bay.
Receipts
- Embedded in daily workflowsAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
How it compounds · Each integration deepens dependency across enterprises or consumers.
Balance sheet as weapon
Scale lets them out-spend, out-acquire, and out-wait smaller rivals through downturns.
Receipts
- Balance sheet as weaponAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Regulatory crosshairs
Size attracts antitrust, privacy, and national-security scrutiny that can slow product launches.
Receipts
- Regulatory crosshairsAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
What it constrains · M&A and default settings become political events, not just product choices.
Strategy concentrated at the top
Markets and employees price in founder/CEO vision; a succession shock moves the stock before the org chart does.
Receipts
- Strategy concentrated at the topAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch · Board independence fights, health events, or public succession timelines.
Sam Altman runs OpenAI where operational detail and external narrative both matter. We track patterns in public communication and capital allocation, not pop-psych labels.
Behavioural dimensions
Control vs delegation
uncertain
How tightly product and capital decisions are held at the center.
Risk tolerance
uncertain
Willingness to bet the brand on single-product pivots.
Public visibility appetite
uncertain
Frequency of personal brand use vs corporate voice.
Possible drivers
Possible driver: Scale as safety
Our read: Sam Altman treats scale — users, cash, or installed base — as the primary buffer against both competitors and regulators.
The behaviour underneath
- Scale as safetyAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Would change our mind Whether they shrink to core when pressured, or double down on breadth.
Not a diagnosis. Nobody here has examined Sam, and no clinical term appears in this section. This is an interpretation of public behaviour by people who are not their doctor. We publish it because when this much power sits with one person, what drives them stops being a private matter — not to excuse anything, and not to explain it away.
Employees
Direct payroll
Direct / controlled payroll (seed estimate)
2K
Influence
Media / platform
Media / platform audience (seed estimate)
120M
Sales / customers
API / Plus / enterprise (seed)
1M
Product users
ChatGPT weekly active users (seed)
400M
Politicians
Politicians / races backed
races / candidates
10
OpenAI
CEO
Net worth
$2B
$2 billion·$2,000,000,000
As of Sep 2, 2026
MZ100 research estimate (Sep 2026) — not live Forbes scrape
8.00 billion bananas at $0.25 each
Each banana here ≈ $15.6M · 62.50 million bananas
Rough prices for scale — not part of the score.
Not researched for this profile yet.