Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“I wonder if they did talk to AWS at all about it. Because I think—this is a crazy Easter egg; I hesitate to say it out loud—AWS was actually in the very first investment with Elon in OpenAI.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…And there’s basically only two non-Google options. They’re both in Seattle, and hey, one of them in Microsoft is really interested, also has a lot of cash. It seems like a great partnership. That’s true. I wonder if they did talk to AWS at all about it. Because I think—this is a crazy Easter egg; I hesitate to say it out loud—AWS was actually in the very first investment with Elon in OpenAI. Oh wow.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.