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Sam's criticality has nothing to do with the technical capabilities of OAI, but everything to do with the commercialization of OAI.

How so? Does he control the tech in some way? Patents?

Marketing to VCs and for lack of a better word, nerd influencers

> for lack of a better word, nerd influencers

Personality cult. Seeing hundreds of employees swearing fealty to their [ex]CEO has been very bizarre.