Buying homes with pre-IPO OpenAI stock? New trend going viral in San Francisco
The Bay Area’s real estate market is notoriously competitive, and the artificial intelligence boom is taking it to a whole new level.
Would-be buyers are getting turned down because others are making offers in AI stock.
A text shared on social media is now going viral and exposing a new reality in the San Francisco real estate market.
House hunting in SF is going great pic.twitter.com/Ib9u8WTR8W
— michael hess (@mchlhess) July 1, 2026
In it, a tech company founder shows a conversation with his realtor in which he was told his bid for a Noe Valley home, which was $400 thousand over asking price, was denied.
The realtor responds saying the seller instead went with a buyer who paid in pre-IPO stock of OpenAI.
“I think the motivation is to get the jump on things,” said Kevin O’Connor.
Bad news for OpenAI and Anthropic.
The tech sector generated $110 billion from AI last year.
But estimates have only 11% of that revenue actually went to the AI labs in Q1.
The rest of that revenue goes to Cloud hosting services like Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet.
These are the…
— Nic (@puckrin) July 6, 2026
Jim Chanos called Enron before it collapsed – by reading the one page everyone skipped.
now he says the same trick is hiding in plain sight again.
the trick: in a spending boom, one dollar gets counted twice. booked as profit by the company selling the gear – quietly… https://t.co/XaqpLspnKu pic.twitter.com/fkGG0jqtV0
— 0xDipper (@Dipper_pol) July 5, 2026
The current S&P 500 fractal overlaid on the 2000 dot-com bubble looks identical.
If this continues, the stock market has a few months at the most before the big crash. pic.twitter.com/mEVRaW23lQ
— Ted (@TedPillows) July 6, 2026
h/t @GeorgeGammon pic.twitter.com/f3qzUoTKtF
— Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) July 5, 2026
A $350 Billion Liquidity Drain Is Set To Hit Markets This Summer https://t.co/dpycQSm6lt
— Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) July 5, 2026