How to Invest in OpenAI in 2025: All the Ways to Own a Stake in ChatGPT’s Creator
Understanding OpenAI’s Unique Structure and Investors OpenAI’s background: OpenAI started in 2015 as a research lab co-founded by Sam Altman and Elon Musk (among others) with a non-profit mission. In 2019, to fund expensive AI development, OpenAI created a hybrid for-profit entity (“OpenAI LP”) with a capped-profit model – investors can earn returns up to a certain limit, after which the majority of profits return to the original non-profit to support its mission reuters.com. This structure is highly unusual, and it’s part of why OpenAI hasn’t gone public yet. Altman has openly said he’s wary of an IPO in the
