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a) The company vision up until this point included commercial products. b) Altman personally hired many of the rank and file. c) OpenAI doesn't exist with cus
by threeseed 3y ago
a) The company vision up until this point included commercial products.
b) Altman personally hired many of the rank and file.
c) OpenAI doesn't exist with customers, investors or partners. And in this one move the board has alienated all three.
- no_wizard 3y agoI seriously doubt customers or (most) partners care about this. I have yet to hear of a single customer or partner leave the service, and I do not believe it to be likely. Simply, unless they shut down their offerings on Monday they will have their customers. Investors care, but if new management can keep the gravy track, they ultimately won’t care either. Companies pivot all the time. Who is to say the new vision isn’t favored by the majority of the company?
- threeseed 3y agoThe fact that this happened so soon after Developer Day is a clear signal that the board wasn't happy with that direction. Which is why every developer/partner including Microsoft is going to be watching this situation unfold with trepidation. And I don't know how you can "keep the gravy track" when you want the company to move away from commercialisation.
- wwtrv 3y ago> I have yet to hear of a single customer or partner leave the service Which doesen't mean a lot. Of course they'd wait for this to play out before committing to anything. > but if new management can keep the gravy track I got the vague impression that this whole thing was partially about stopping the gravy train? In any case Microsoft won't be too happy about being entirely blindsided (if that was the case) and probably won't really trust the new management.
- kcb 3y agoThe new management has declared that their primary goal in all this was to stop the gravy track.
- no_wizard 3y agoI don’t think there has been a formal announcement on the new direction yet