介绍： How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom
OpenAI allowed employees to sell up to $30 million worth of shares each in a recent financing, making them some of the earliest financial winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.
Last October, more than 600 current and former employees ...

介绍： How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom
OpenAI allowed employees to sell up to $30 million worth of shares each in a recent financing, making them some of the earliest financial winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.
Last October, more than 600 current and former employees sold their shares in a single stroke, collectively making $6.6 billion. 
OpenAI required employees to wait two years before they could sell their shares, meaning that the share sale marked the first time many who joined the company after ChatGPT launched were able to cash out.
The newfound wealth is driving up rental prices in San Francisco, and sparking concerns about a growing class divide within the city. Some top AI executives have pledged to provide a large portion of their earnings to charity, alongside rank-and-file employees who didn’t expect to come across such life-changing wealth. No other tech boom in history has lavished that magnitude of wealth on such a swath of employees even before a public listing.
OpenAI is currently the world’s most-valuable tech startup, and employees who were at the company when it first issued shares seven years ago have seen the value of their stock grow more than 100-fold. By comparison, the Nasdaq composite roughly tripled in the same period.
Top OpenAI executives have experienced even more of a windfall. President Greg Brockman holds equity worth about $30 billion, he said Monday during court testimony. Chief Executive Sam Altman has said he doesn’t own shares in the company, citing its nonprofit roots, though some investors expect him to receive equity if he prevails in a court battle with Elon Musk over OpenAI’s restructuring from a nonprofit into a for-profit company.
生词好句
lottery ticket 乐透彩票
jackpot n. 大奖
windfall n. 意外之财
boom 英 [buːm] 美 [buːm] n. 大爆发
.com Boom 互联网大爆发
Web 2.0 Boom Web 2.0 热潮（强调用户互动和内容创作）
stroke 英 [strəʊk] 美 [stroʊk] n. 一击；一笔；一次动作
a stroke of luck 一份突如其来的好运
a stroke of genius 天才的灵光一现
The policy change wiped out years of planning in a single stroke.一项政策变化，一下子抹掉了多年的规划。
collectively 英 [kəˈlektɪvli] 美 [kəˈlektɪvli]
adv. 总共；合计
cash out 把某种资产换成现金
cash n. 现金；v. 变现
Many founders look rich on paper, but they cannot cash out until there is an IPO or a tender offer.很多创始人在账面上看起来很富，但在IPO或要约收购之前无法真正套现。
newfound 英 [ˈnjuːfaʊnd] 美 [ˈnuːfaʊnd] adj. 新获得的，新发现的
spark concerns 引发担忧
spark n. 火花；v. 点燃
class divide 阶级分化
class n.（本文）经济阶层
divide n. 分界；鸿沟
rank-and-file n.（本文）普通员工；普通士兵
rank n.（军队中的）排
file n. 队列
A healthy company should make sure rank-and-file employees share in the upside, not just the executives. 一家健康的公司应该确保普通员工也能分享增长收益，而不是只有高管拿到好处。
lavish 英 [ˈlævɪʃ] 美 [ˈlævɪʃ] v. 挥霍般地给予；adj. 丰盛奢华的
a lavish dinner 一顿奢华的晚宴
magnitude 英 [ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd] 美 [ˈmæɡnɪtuːd] n. 量级；震级
windfall 英 [ˈwɪndfɔːl] 美 [ˈwɪndfɔːl] n. 意外之财
The property sale gave the family an unexpected windfall, but it also forced them to rethink their future. 那次房产出售给这个家庭带来了一笔意外之财，也迫使他们重新思考未来。
equity 英 [ˈekwɪti] 美 [ˈekwɪti] n. 股权；所有权
cite 英 [saɪt] 美 [saɪt] v. 以……为理由
The company delayed its launch, citing safety concerns. 公司推迟发布，理由是存在安全方面的担忧。
prevail 英 [prɪˈveɪl] 美 [prɪˈveɪl] v. 胜出
court battle 法律战
case n. 案件
lawsuit n. 诉讼
stroke, collectively making $6.6 billion. For roughly 75 of them, that meant walking away with the full $30 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
Some of them chose to give away the rest, putting their remaining shares in donor-advised funds—charitable investment accounts that commit money for philanthropic causes while also allowing donors to claim tax deductions for that year.