That's a good question, and I agree it was a clever design. I don't know that there is a way to modify the org structure to prevent what happened. As much as I dislike them, a clear non-compete clause after the structure was in place might have helped, but I'm not sure that's even an option in CA. And having employees re-sign for noncompete would be fraught itself (better from the start). But this does seem like the most relevant application of non-compete. I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure they had top notch lawyers review the structure. If OpenAI played the non-compete card it wouldn't make retention easier if employees were willing to walk (they wouldn't exactly have trouble finding jobs anywhere). Do you know of anything that might have prevented it?