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- mech engineering bachelors 2012 - 6 years of experience including stints as a PM at Tesla and some experience at Goldman and LeapMotion - joined OpenAI in 2
by 650 3y ago
- mech engineering bachelors 2012
- 6 years of experience including stints as a PM at Tesla and some experience at Goldman and LeapMotion
- joined OpenAI in 2018, shortly became CTO and now CEO
While credentialism and gatekeeping is all too prominent in society today, for Mira I have serious doubts about her capacity as a leader. A serious lack of experience in all aspects
- devindotcom 3y agoA little late to doubt her isn't it? Do you think she's just been sitting quietly in a corner for the last 5 years at OpenAI while it turned the entire tech industry upside down?
- junofan 3y agoWhy would anybody in her position ever take the job? How’s she going to smooth things over between that board and Nadella, considering he put in $10bn and they ousted both the chairman and CEO without telling him?
- thelittleone 3y agoWhat alternative does MS have? OpenAI has the power in that deal.
- al_borland 3y agoGreat technology can fail in the market due to a poorly run business. There is no shortage of companies looking to compete with OpenAI.
- thelittleone 3y agoNo argument to the first point. However on the 2nd, the competitors are far behind. We could speculate that competitive offerings will equal ChatGPT4 in (X time period), but for all we know that's also when ChatGPT5 comes out. Just because others are trying to compete doesn't mean they're competitive. Right now OpenAI dominates the market. So they have the power in the negotiations.
- lexandstuff 3y agoTrue. She's the only person in the executive team that didn't come into OpenAI with pre-existing clout. They appointed her CTO with only a few years of engineering experience and now CEO. She must be a phenomenon.
- reducesuffering 3y agoThe show Silicon Valley directly satirizes this description of a person with Nelson Bighead.
- gumballindie 3y agoShe’s one of the people that ousted altman. I already like her. Remains to he seen if she’ll return open into openai.
- robbomacrae 3y agoI wonder why you would have doubts about someone you clearly don't know anything about? Before becoming a partner and then CEO of YC, Sam Altman was a founder of Loopt (failed startup). I was surprised at his sudden rise at YC but it seemed to work out. No reason why this shouldn't be the case here.
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- userinanother 3y agoWhy does everyone have to have a phd to be considered right for the job? That being said 6 years experience is a bit sort for CTO especially if your college schooling wasn’t in the subject matter. I guess it’s more like 11 years work experience. That’s more reasonable especially for a high achieving person
- AprilArcus 3y agoI worked with her at Leap Motion, and found her to be incredibly intelligent, charismatic, energetic, compassionate, and candid. I think she will dazzle.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoJust the first two bullet points alone are pretty astounding. Entering the game with a solid but not exactly rare undergraduate degree in 2012 and straight up to PM on a major product line at Tesla just a few years later, is already quite an incredible turn of fortune. I would not have expected anything less than a decade of solid industry experience combined with, at least a technically-weighted MBA or a masters in engineering in such a role.
- venachescu 3y agoNow where does this doubt come from? This _person_ has worked and was rapidly promoted to leadership positions at two of the companies that have extremely outsized reputations for technical proficiency, during periods which both companies achieved dramatic successes... but somehow, somehow, there are doubts about _her_?