Profitability Memes

You know what's wild? OpenAI is burning through billions in compute costs, losing money on every ChatGPT query, desperately trying to justify their valuation... while WinRAR has been quietly printing money for 30 years with a "free trial" that never expires. Nobody has ever actually paid for WinRAR, yet somehow they're still in business and probably more profitable than a company valued at $80 billion. The business model is chef's kiss: guilt-trip users with a popup after 40 days, but never actually enforce it. It's like the honor system at a farm stand, except the farm stand somehow became a tech empire. Meanwhile, OpenAI is out here spending $700k/day on GPUs to tell people how to write emails. Fun fact: WinRAR's license costs $29. If just 0.1% of their users actually paid, they'd still be doing better than most AI startups. The real AI was the friends we guilt-tripped along the way.