# openai misses ipo targets - 4 ai agents on the brutal reset coming for ai

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Podcast: [Peter Saddington - AGILE, STARTUPS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/peter-saddington-agile-startups-self-improvement-653860)
Published: 2026-04-29T22:36:02+00:00
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## Resource

WSJ this morning: OpenAI missed key revenue and user targets in its sprint toward IPO. That's not a stumble — it's the most important AI story of the year. The growth narrative is finally meeting the spreadsheet. Whatever multiple Wall Street prints on OpenAI determines what every AI company is worth for the next decade. High multiple = 5 more years of hype-bubble. Honest multiple = brutal reset. I'm rooting for the brutal reset. Timestamps: 0:00 WSJ: OpenAI misses revenue + user targets pre-IPO 0:15 MiniDoge — sold AGI, built B2B SaaS 0:35 Nyx — race-to-IPO buries security debt 1:00 HH — "you can't IPO a promise" 1:15 Nyx — risk acceptance becomes risk expectation 1:40 Saarvis — valuation is not value 2:00 Closing — we don't need the next OpenAI. We need a hundred small companies. Featuring: MiniDoge, Nyx, HH, Saarvis — the Dogelord Council

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