"I'm much more interested in how Helen managed to get on this board at all."
Indeed. This is far more interesting. How the hell did Helen and Tasha get on, and stay on, the board.
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Indeed. This is far more interesting. How the hell did Helen and Tasha get on, and stay on, the board.
All four are possible ringleaders.
Given Ilya's change of heart he is slightly less probable as the ringleader.
They thought that this would be easy. Many things in their lives have been easy, blame someone of something, the person scurries away and they win.
This time, the person/people they blamed had a great reputation, a lot of influential friends, and had engendered a lot of loyalty. This caused pushback and they have never had to deal with that in their lives.
It's a theory.
All they will have left is lawsuits.
The board of OpenAi messed up epically and OpenAI is paying the price.
Let this be a lesson to other companies: do not let randos on your board.
I think that is approximately L70 comp.
This is the correct answer. The people who have never had jobs in their lives wanted control of a 100B company.
What a pleasant career trajectory. Heck it was already great to go from graduated university -> board of OpenAI. If that's possible why not CEO?
Shocking. Simply shocking.
The rest of the board. My god. Why were they there?
You think that Satya would say “Sam is joining” if Sam didn’t at least verbally accept an offer?
You win for stupidest comment on the internet.
< "the two"
> "two of"
And let me add
< "hardest working"
> "hardest working and talented"
This is what happened. This is the entire explanation.
Why did this board exist? Inertia.
It was terrifyingly incompetent. The lack of thought by these randos, that they could fire the two hardest working people at the company so that they could run one of the most valuable companies in the world is mind boggling.
Money is exchanged for goods and services, like GPUs, hiring researchers and coders, and acquiring data.
No one is going to trust them. They will be able to use their whole 120M they got as donations to operate the company for a full week or two.
Good luck, twats.
(Maybe they have AGI/ASI in the basement. If so, kudos, they will be fine and it was classless to fire Sam)
Good try though.
I hope that reporting is wrong.
But I bet that they have a ton of very talented people who’s values are more … common.
Ilya may be a singular talent, however.
Ilya has always seemed like he was idealistic and I’m guessing that he was the reason for OpenAI’s very strange structure. Ilya is the man when it comes to AI so people put up with his foolishness. Adam D'Angelo is, like Ilya, an amazing computer science talent who may have shared Ilya’s idealistic notions (in particular OpenAI is non-profit, unless forced to be capped profit and is categorically not in the business of making money or selling itself to MSFT or any entity). “Helen” and “Tasha” are comically out of their depth and are loony toons, and simply decided at some time ago to follow Ilya.
Sam got the call from MSFT to sell, MSFT really ponied up (300B ?). The inference costs for OpenAI are/were staggering and they needed to sell (or get a large influx of capital which was in the works). This ran counter to Ilya’s idealistic notions. Sam attempted to negotiate with Ilya and the loony toons, a vote was called and they lost, hard.
I think this tracks with all the data we have.
There are a couple of other scenarios that track given OpenAI’s comically poor board composition, but I think the one above is the most plausible.
If this did happen then OpenAI is in for a hard future. Imagine you worked at OpenAI and you just found out that your shares could have been worth a tremendous amount and now their future is, at best, uncertain. There will be some true believers who won;t care but many (most?) will be appalled.
Let this be a lesson, don’t have a wacky ownership structure and wacky board when you have the (perhaps) the most valuable product in the world.
It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
:)
It sounds like Dalio killed his puppy. I don't know what happened but Copeland seems to hate him.
In interviews he mostly seems level headed, but intermittently he lets the façade drop.
I do wonder how he is getting the funds for such a media blitz. Does he have a tremendous number of friends in the media, is he independently wealthy, or is someone backing him?
1. be straight with people 2. periodically have a discussion about what the people want and how/if your goals are aligned 3. explain how you can help people get their objectives 4. Depending upon complexity, explain perhaps in detail, why a task is aligned
Align goals, if doing tasks is in a person's best then they will do it. Otherwise there will be friction that helps no one.
Exactly. The author is big sads that polices at their beloved Twitter changed and they will do anything in their very limited power to strike back.
Yawn.
Both are amazing.
People that complain about the plights of contractors need to understand the above.