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		epolanski 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange Pointless argument unless you define what startup means. Different dictionaries provide different definitions. A common one is that it's small and recently started business, but it's a very vague boundary.

reaperducer 3 months ago [–]

Half a trillion dollars isn't "small" no matter how vague you want to make the boundary.

epolanski 3 months ago | [–]

Neither a billion isn't small no matter how vague you want to make it, yet, we label startups with this valuation as unicorns. So where is the boundary? 10 billions? 100? 1000?

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