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ChatGPT originally was entirely free, and the reason for that was that it was intended to be a demo Yeah.
And we
were gonna wind it down after a month. Mhmm. We then realized that the demo went viral, and people loved the demo, and it was actually a product. And but we realized that to be a product, you can't take the product down every time you're at capacity. So we, you know, ship subscriptions simply because it could shift the demand. It was a way of gracefully turning users away when we had to turn away someone.
You You you guys are at 900,000,000 VT active users now, and that growth has been incredible. The next billion users, where are they where are they gonna come from?
We've got about 10% of the world coming to us now, 90% left to go. Right? There's so much more opportunity.
Well, Nick, so excited to have you here.
Thank you for having me, Paurav.
You've had quite the journey from Germany to The US, from Brown.
That's true.
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