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Fortune
Allie Garfinkle

Can a startup be worth a trillion dollars?

Sam Altman (Credit: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sometime in August, my editor and I became interested in a question that turned out to be less controversial than expected: Will we ever see trillion-dollar startups?

I’ve now asked dozens of people this question and the answer, almost unanimously, has been some version of “Yes, look at OpenAI’s $500 billion valuation.” 

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