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Ideas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.

by andy99 3y ago

CPLX 3y ago
What ventures has he executed successfully?
- threeseed 3y ago
  OpenAI obviously. You can't argue that the company has not been impressively run and not just because of the quality of the models.
  - CPLX 3y ago
    As far as I can tell his tenure was marked by interpersonal conflict with most of the key players, after which he was suddenly fired amid allegations he was using his role as head of a non profit to advance his own personal interests.
    - threeseed 3y ago
      This is inside baseball. Nobody other than us care about the inner workings. At the end of the day he is responsible for building a $100b business, with a product users love, that has attracted developers in droves and built a highly successful partnership with Microsoft. And pretty sure the direction of the company is what the issue was. Not any side projects.
      - CPLX 3y ago
        It’s not a company it’s a non-profit organization with a defined mission. Pretty sure that’s the crux of the problem here. The sort of interesting part of all these comment threads is the unstated assumption that a very fast growing multi billion dollar for profit tech company is an unmitigated “good thing” and anyone getting in the way of that is wrong. Not everyone thinks that or has that as a goal.
  - TeaBrain 3y ago
    He didn't built OpenAI, which he wasn't a founder of either. By the time he came on as CEO in 2019, they had already built GPT-2, and GPT-3 was likely already well on its way, as it would be released only around a year later.
    - threeseed 3y ago
      He wasn't technically a founder but was there since day one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
bugglebeetle 3y ago
The ideas that led to OpenAI’s technologies were not plentiful. They were the product of a handful of brilliant researchers, who correctly structured OpenAI to prevent them from being co-opted by people who are incapable of ever having them.
dmitrygr 3y ago
Got a citation for him DOING anything other than talking?
bananapub 3y ago
> Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength. when has he "executed"? he seems to have had four jobs: 1. a failed startup founder 1. a YC person handing out other people's money 1. openai ceo 1. a horrific cryptocurrency grift which do you feel he "executed" so impressively on?

Ideas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.

by andy99 3y ago

Ideas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.

CPLX 3y ago

What ventures has he executed successfully?

threeseed 3y ago
OpenAI obviously. You can't argue that the company has not been impressively run and not just because of the quality of the models.
- CPLX 3y ago
  As far as I can tell his tenure was marked by interpersonal conflict with most of the key players, after which he was suddenly fired amid allegations he was using his role as head of a non profit to advance his own personal interests.
  - threeseed 3y ago
    This is inside baseball. Nobody other than us care about the inner workings. At the end of the day he is responsible for building a $100b business, with a product users love, that has attracted developers in droves and built a highly successful partnership with Microsoft. And pretty sure the direction of the company is what the issue was. Not any side projects.
    - CPLX 3y ago
      It’s not a company it’s a non-profit organization with a defined mission. Pretty sure that’s the crux of the problem here. The sort of interesting part of all these comment threads is the unstated assumption that a very fast growing multi billion dollar for profit tech company is an unmitigated “good thing” and anyone getting in the way of that is wrong. Not everyone thinks that or has that as a goal.
- TeaBrain 3y ago
  He didn't built OpenAI, which he wasn't a founder of either. By the time he came on as CEO in 2019, they had already built GPT-2, and GPT-3 was likely already well on its way, as it would be released only around a year later.
  - threeseed 3y ago
    He wasn't technically a founder but was there since day one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

bugglebeetle 3y ago

The ideas that led to OpenAI’s technologies were not plentiful. They were the product of a handful of brilliant researchers, who correctly structured OpenAI to prevent them from being co-opted by people who are incapable of ever having them.

dmitrygr 3y ago

Got a citation for him DOING anything other than talking?

bananapub 3y ago

> Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength. when has he "executed"? he seems to have had four jobs: 1. a failed startup founder 1. a YC person handing out other people's money 1. openai ceo 1. a horrific cryptocurrency grift which do you feel he "executed" so impressively on?