Brockman Says OpenAI Could Be IPO-Ready in 2027 as Enterprise Becomes Majority Revenue
According to TechCrunch's account of Greg Brockman's remarks at a Wall Street Journal tech conference, OpenAI's president answered that the company could be IPO-ready in 2027 with 'I think so. Yes.' He said third-quarter annualized revenue rose 70% quarter over quarter as enterprise doubled and became the majority of revenue, up from about 30%. Figures are Brockman's as reported by a single secondary outlet; OpenAI has not published matching audited numbers in this coverage.
OpenAI's public-markets timing signal is still coming through a single reporter's notebook. TechCrunch, citing OpenAI president Greg Brockman at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, November 4, says that when asked whether the company would be IPO-ready next year, Brockman replied: "I think so. Yes." Coverage landed on November 5. We have not seen a matching OpenAI blog post or audited filing for the figures below.
What Brockman claimed, as TechCrunch reports it#
Brockman said OpenAI wants to go public "when we feel is the right time," and that he has "never felt more confident" in the business. He described the first and second quarters of 2026 as "pretty rough," admitted OpenAI "wasn't even in the conversation" on agentic coding while Anthropic's Claude Code gained share, and said Codex kept shipping until third-quarter activity picked up.
Per TechCrunch, he attributed a 70% quarter-over-quarter rise in annualized revenue in Q3 to the enterprise business doubling, and said enterprise is now the majority of revenue after previously accounting for about 30%. Consumer revenue, he said, has kept growing; enterprise grew faster. He cited a JPMorgan Chase partnership as an example win. The remarks sit on the same founder-control track as Brockman's earlier absorption of product power ahead of a possible IPO.
Limits#
- Single secondary source. All quotes and figures here are TechCrunch's account of a conference appearance; we did not obtain WSJ primary transcript or an OpenAI confirmation post.
- The 70% annualized-revenue growth and enterprise majority claims are unaudited remarks, not GAAP results in an S-1 or 10-Q excerpt we have read.
- "IPO-ready in 2027" is Brockman's hedged answer ("I think so"), not a priced roadshow or filed registration.
- Treat every number in this brief as UNVERIFIED CLAIM pending a primary disclosure.