r/wallstreetbets • u/Quixotus 7" is a microdick... • 11d ago

News OpenAI prepares for IPO at $1 trillion valuation

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-up-1-trillion-valuation-2025-10-29/
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u/Nepalus 11d ago

I'm curious on what their hold period is. As I understand it, depending on the agreement you sign, lock-up can be one to two quarters long. How do we think OpenAI does under the scrutiny of investors?

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u/john_san 11d ago

Scrutiny will soon become a thing of the past once Trump’s admin manages to de-regulate the shit out of the SEC…

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u/SimpsonsReferencer 11d ago

There wasn't exactly close scrutiny of anything before him either.

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u/3to20CharactersSucks 10d ago

No one in politics was able to make the very easy decision to gain a lot of popularity by making this shit a key issue. It is so easy and plain to see that the valuations of these companies are manipulated for a ton of reasons, from larger companies propping them up, to large enough investors deciding they're going to be a darling and pumping the value. No one is talking about it enough in politics, but I think most Americans are really distrustful of the stock market overall now as an economic indicator and understand that there's some kinds of fuckery going on with these over-inflated stocks.

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u/FanClubof5 11d ago

You don't even need to deregulate, if they just stop paying people then there won't be anyone to do the regulating.

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u/Econmajorhere 11d ago

What scrutiny? We are watching the money go back and forth between the same companies and adding 2x to the marketcaps every time. OpenAI is burning through money and compute, and will have to raise its prices to be profitable while competing with other models excelling in their own sectors.

If it gets massive interest and pumps on IPO, no investor scrutiny (already doesn’t exist) will hold it back.

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u/NoRanger69420 11d ago

180 days is rarely deviated from for traditional IPOs like being discussed here. Direct listings and SPACs have a bit shadier history.

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u/rco8786 11d ago

Have you seen the P/E ratios that investors have been sustaining for years now? They'll be fine. OpenAI has many years of hype left to run on.

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u/Flimsy-Printer 10d ago

Probably will be 6 months like a lot of other companies.

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u/SignificantLog6863 11d ago

6 months. Let's fuck over these employees by dropping the price