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> A net worth of $150 billion is quite an achievement.

And not too long ago he was touting he was in it for the good of humanity, and "proved" it by only taking a $60k salary with no equity.

A true paragon of honesty and straight-dealing.

Indeed. Plus it's rather late in the company lifespan for them to be handing out large swathes of equity. A weird decision for a company nominally controlled by a non-profit.

It's saying the company itself is worth $150B, not Sam Altman's net worth

$150B is just a (somewhat arbitrary) estimate of the current value of OpenAI.

Poorly phrased. $150 billion is the total company valuation, not the share that Sam would receive.

If anybody is as confused as I was, the quote in this comment is from a separate article from weeks back...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

Don't play their game where they pretend that their net worth is proportional to their achievements.

Is the article linked on archive different? This text is not in the article I read.

Reads like a play to dilute the power of executives that departed