Bloomberg: Sam Altman's 'Lack of Focus' Is OpenAI's Biggest IPO Threat — Sora Shutdown Cited as Overcorrection

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Bloomberg's April 8 opinion piece identifies Altman's strategic drift as the primary risk to OpenAI's $1T+ IPO, diagnosing him with 'Mark Zuckerberg syndrome' — steering ChatGPT into shopping and burning compute on video generation for Sora. Altman has since shut down Sora entirely and walked away from a $1 billion Walt Disney investment, which Bloomberg frames as an effort to refocus but questions whether it's too little too late. The piece notes CFO Sarah Friar views the aggressive Q4 2026 IPO timeline as premature, adding internal tension to the external concerns raised by the New Yorker investigation.