I wrote in June 2021 how Sam Altman's departure from YC had been under explored

Is there a link to the whole thing? I see three screenshots but it seems that the original writing is longer than that.

Went digging through your Substack archives to find the full piece, but sadly it's locked.

An adjacent story had an interesting and tangentially relevant point as of today, though

> To understand the material world, you might study physics. To resolve those epistemic questions, you could turn to philosophers. For questions of the soul, you might ask a minister. But for these social questions in the short-term you’re basically stuck with journalists... > > ...We’re left trying to build a mental model for how the world works in this fog. In tech, we know very little about what leaders like Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen are up to on a day-to-day basis. We get only snippets of their actual ideologies. Thiel famously hid the fact that he was funding the lawsuit to bring down Gawker! We learned about it because Ryan Mac and Matt Drange reported it.

https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-and-the-future

There isn't much here, from what I can tell.

It was communicated that he'd be an advisor, but then he moved to OpenAI as CEO and that advisor role didnt materialize so later on someone from YC updated his Wiki page.

If the author feels it should have been looked into, perhaps they should have looked into it?

Tweet with comments on nitter: https://nitter.net/EricNewcomer/status/1725633569056506282

that actually could be interesting and important

I’ve had the same frictions with everyone that’s ever worked with me as an executive, if I structured my organizations any differently I would have been out for the same reasons each time too, but other stakeholders never had that power

This nonspecific snippet reads like, at best, bandwagoning, and possibly more down the spectrum towards dramamongering. Can you comment a little more specifically on what you think happened that wasn't "explored".

Knowing what I know, I personally wouldn’t advise doing any kind of business with Sam Altman.

I don't think there's any juicy scandal of the kind that people are expecting, both at YC or OpenAI. Sam Altman's defining characteristic is that he is well spoken, inoffensive and largely incompetent. His entire time in the tech industry has been him finding himself in a position of power, failing, and then falling upwards. It happened at Loopt, then YC, then Worldcoin, and now the same thing is just happening again at OpenAI. "Fake it till you make it" only works until the people around you who have been propping you up finally get tired of it.

I'm unable to take seriously someone whose phone battery is on red.

From someone who actually had dealings with him during Loopt days...

Please for the love a deity stop!

I know from first hand experience that Sam always deals with people and business deals above board...even got first row seats to see how a real first rate pitch deck is created and pitched.

Rant mode off....