In 1922, a New York radio station aired the world’s first commercial advertisement. It was 10 minutes long, cost the advertiser $50, and sold apartment rentals in Queens.

Nobody thought much of it at the time.

But within two decades, radio advertising exploded from $4 million to $216 million – a 4,400% surge. One American electronics company, RCA, rode that wave to a 200x gain. It was one of the largest stock run-ups in market history.

The same pattern played out with television.

In 1941, the first TV commercial aired. There were 40,000 TV sets in American homes… and that mass adoption caused ad revenue to skyrocket from $1 million to $70.8 billion by 2007.

The Modern Ad Wave

While radio and TV brought a new stratosphere of revenue ad growth, these gains were modest compared to what would come next.

In 1994, the first banner ad appeared on the internet – and since then, internet advertising has grown from $100 million to over $650 billion.

Google has dominated the internet ad space… and today the company is worth $4 trillion.

Social media giant Facebook minted billionaires when its network started running ads in 2007.

This tech and ad combination is what I call the “Millionaire Pattern.”

Here’s the pattern in its essence…

A new medium captures massive attention. Advertising gets turned on. A handful of investors who saw it coming get rich.

And now, in the age of AI, I’m convinced this pattern is about to play out on an even BIGGER scale.

A New Sheriff in Town

For two decades, Google has controlled the internet’s advertising infrastructure – raking in $237.8 billion in a single year, with ads accounting for 77% of all its revenue.

But in 2022, AI language model ChatGPT (owned by OpenAI) arrived. And quietly, steadily, it’s been following the Millionaire pattern to a T.

First, ChatGPT grew its user base to 800 million weekly users on a free tier with no ads. This was the audience buildup – acquiring users at a scale to make eventual monetization extraordinarily valuable.

Since the start of this year, OpenAI has been quietly testing ads on ChatGPT. Once its ad switch gets flipped fully on, it could usher in a new wealth wave.

But there’s an additional catalyst beyond ads.

OpenAI in Pre-IPO Stage

OpenAI is making moves to become a publicly traded company. Its IPO filing could come as soon as March 16, 2026, and the company could go public as early as 2026 or 2027.

It’s one of the most anticipated and potentially largest IPOs in history. Internal estimates have suggested a valuation as high as $1 trillion.

The company is also managing high compute costs and growing revenue, with reports indicating a focus on securing capital to fund its rapid growth and AI infrastructure.

Historically, only the richest investors have been able to get involved in a unicorn like OpenAI in its Pre-IPO stage. But there are indirect ways you could invest.

For example, Microsoft (MSFT) also holds a significant stake in OpenAI, and the two companies have a close partnership, which will heavily influence the structure of any potential IPO.

So one way to gain OpenAI exposure to is indirectly through its partnership with Microsoft. But that’s not where the biggest money is made. I have another way.

YOUR ACTION PLAN

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As OpenAI races toward the most anticipated IPO in modern history, this under-the-radar company is poised to become its most essential infrastructure partner.

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