More than 600 employees at OpenAI have completed a $6.6 billion liquidity event 💵 According to The Wall Street Journal, @OpenAI finalized this secondary share sale in October 2025. Over 600 current and former employees collectively sold shares worth $6.6 billion, with each individual capped at $30 million (approximately 75 people reached the cap), at a company valuation of $500 billion. The transaction has been officially closed, with employees selling their shares directly to investors—including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, Abu Dhabi’s MGX, and T. Rowe Price—with cash now received. OpenAI itself did not raise any capital from this transaction; it was purely a liquidity event for employees and one of the largest employee cash-outs in AI history.