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“ Finally, late Sunday night, Satya Nadella announced via tweet that Altman and Brockman, “together with colleagues”, would be joining Microsoft”

Called it, EEE is complete. This is old Microsoft magic. I hope younger people starting their careers are taking note. All that money gates is giving away to buy his way into heaven came from the same tactics.

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Disagree. Satya's Microsoft is more like Embrace-Extend-Share: he's running it more like an old-school conglomerate --not BillG's "one company to rule them all".

AFAICT, New Microsoft is a platform of platforms with profit flowing down to lower-level platforms (Windows, Azure) but being made in all levels (Office, Xbox, LinkedIn) and shared with others (employees / partners) at some levels.

Satya has basically taken the Bezos insight --use your scale to build platforms that you also sell to outsiders-- and inverted it: use as many platforms as possible to build and sustain scale. This is not new, this is exactly what a conglomerate would have done 100+ years ago. But he's doing it methodically and while breaking fewer rules than Amazon or Google. Mad respect.

All the shade going the board (legit) - that said Altman and Brockman just lost so much of their independence its unbelievable - sad state of affairs that its being described as a win for them (or a good salvage). Also - everyone is pinning the board for all the problems ... everybody's hands are dirty here that it even got to this point. What a mess.

... What? How is this in any way related to EEE? The OpenAI board did this to themselves.

We can't know that - this may have been orchestrated.

By someone on the board, with the approval and participation of the rest of the board. So, the board did it to themselves.

Or do you think MS fabricated evidence to falsely convince the board Sam Altman was lying to them?

It's possible that Sam was given clear parameters for removal, there was a discussion with Microsoft about what would happen after removal, and then a decision was made to fulfill those parameters for removal to move things forward.

Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish for those unfamiliar.

Extend is the middle E.

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