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Taking the role would be like backstabbing YC. It would feel wrong.

Emmett Shear, current CEO of OpenAI, is a YC alum and a YC "visiting group" partner: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-back-to-yc-emmett-s...

Did he turn the position down initially?

And you wouldn't be in Satya's good books either.

They are trying to clean up this mess and now is not the time to be opportunistic.