It’s one thing to not have to ask your major benefactors for input when you fire your CEO. It’s another to not do it and expect any further investment, ever. They should be in full on crisis mode and be trying to figure out how to get stakeholders back on board after so publicly slapping them in the face.
Imagine what sort of rubes would fire an employee and then go home afterward. What sort of charity organization doesn’t spend the weekend feverishly F5ing Bloomberg tweets about how disappointed the fired guy is about the situation?
These are exactly the sort of dimwits that would dump somebody and then like, not dedicate their time responding to every text from their exes buddies. Rookie shit.
They have one of the most valuable products in tech. They have a binding agreement with Microsoft and MS needs OpenAI more than the other way around. They have a dedicated set of researchers who have not pledged to leave and ultimatums have come and gone without mass resignations.
They fired their CEO. It happens. They aren't trying to "salvage" anything. Yes, the for-profit subsidiary investors are probably upset, but the major shareholder is the non-profit who... and this is important... is not beholden to the other for-profit investors!
You think any agreement with Microsoft doesn’t have outs?