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Brockman is off the board but not fired. Which is weird right? You'd think if he was involved in whatever the really bad thing is then he would be fired.
by harryh 3y ago
Brockman is off the board but not fired. Which is weird right? You'd think if he was involved in whatever the really bad thing is then he would be fired.
- foota 3y agoMaybe Sam was the ring leader and he just went along with it?
- floxy 3y agoCould be something like Brockman pushing to investigate further, before having the vote, and the rest of the board not liking that.
- sulam 3y agoIt's probably simple reporting logic. Having a board member reporting to someone not on the board would be problematic.
- jholman 3y agoNo, that sort of thing isn't that weird, in relatively young companies. Think of when Eric Schmidt was CEO of Google. Larry Page and Sergei Brin reported to him as employees of Google, and he (as CEO of Google) reported to himself-and-also-them (as the board), and all of them (as the board) reported to Larry and Sergei (as majority owners). For another example, imagine if OpenAI had never been a non-profit, and look at the board yesterday. You'd have had Ilya reporting to Sam (as employees), while Sam reports to Ilya (with Ilya as one member of the board, and probably a major stakeholder). Now, when it gets hostile, those loops might get pretty weird. When things get hostile, you maybe modify reporting structures so the loops go away, so that people can maintain sane boundaries and still get work done (or gracefully exit, who knows).
- astrange 3y agoComma (geohot's self driving company) has a reporting loop because geohot demoted himself from CEO. Twitter also has one, although that's hardly a functioning example.