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# Greg Brockman: OpenAI's first half was 'pretty rough' before coding drove a Q3 revenue inflection; ready to IPO in 2027, enterprises now the majority of sales

Speaking at the WSJ tech conference in Napa on Nov 4, 2026, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said H1 2026 was 'pretty rough' but that agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol and ChatGPT Work drove a 'revenue inflection' in Q3; asked whether OpenAI would be ready to list next year he said 'I think so', and said business customers now account for most of its sales.

## Key facts
- Also widely shared (MTSlive clip post, ~350k views, Nov 5): Brockman said AI will make 'significant strides' in biology, health and curing diseases in the next 12–18 months and that 'death becoming a choice' could become possible; original recording not located, wording from the post (unverified)
- OpenAI confidentially filed a draft prospectus in June and has set no listing date (Reuters via TNW)
- Same day OpenAI hired Anthropic's Claude Code product lead Cat Wu
- No revenue figures were given for the enterprise share

## What happened

WSJ is paywalled; the 'rough' and 'revenue inflection' wording is from Techmeme's summary of it, the IPO quote from Reuters/TNW.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 189 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 128 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 219 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 158 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [WSJ: OpenAI had 'rough' first half before coding takeoff, Brockman says](https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-had-rough-first-half-of-year-before-coding-takeoff-brockman-says-6c97d9e5) (wsj.com, press)
2. [Reuters: OpenAI, ready to IPO in 2027, now counts majority of sales from enterprises](https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/openai-ready-ipo-2027-now-counts-majority-sales-enterprises-brockman-says-2026-11-05/) (reuters.com, press)
3. [The Next Web: OpenAI will be ready for an IPO in 2027](https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-ipo-2027-brockman-enterprise-revenue) (thenextweb.com, press)
4. [MTSlive on X: Brockman on 'death becoming a choice'](https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2118365651496734838) (x.com, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-11-08: Added Brockman's 'death becoming a choice' remark (secondary source only)
- 2026-11-05 (filed): Created

## Related

- People: [Greg Brockman](https://postcutoff.com/person/greg-brockman/), [Cat Wu](https://postcutoff.com/person/cat-wu/)
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