I’ve been through a couple of booms in my career, the most notable would have to be the dot-com boom. This was a paradigm shift in how things worked

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I’ve been through a couple of booms in my career, the most notable would have to be the dot-com boom. This was a paradigm shift in how things worked and what businesses did. We went from a world where the internet was interesting to people in academia to a world where everyone had to have a web presence.

Web developers appeared in the world and have gradually specialized and split into subgroups, frontend, backend, devops, site reliability engineers, etc… (the list of job titles is endless)

Everything settled down for a while, and then the app store revolution appeared. Now it wasn’t enough just to have a website - you had to have a mobile app as well!

We’re now faced with a third boom. OpenAI released ChatGPT and suddenly AI went mainstream. ChatGPT gained 1 million users in just 5 days and is probably approaching 200 million users now.

There are no official numbers on how many users are actually paying for ChatGPT+ but surveys have suggested that up to 10% of users would be willing to pay for it. If we look at revenue announcements from OpenAI, we can see that they predict ChatGPT will generate \$200 million in revenue by the end of 2023. Given the monthly cost of \$20 for a ChatGPT+ subscription, we can work out that there are probably around 800,000 paying subscribers.