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I have been wondering the same about Altman. Dude had a failed startup, and somehow wormed his way into being the president of YC, a job he f'd up and got fired
by sage76 3y ago
I have been wondering the same about Altman. Dude had a failed startup, and somehow wormed his way into being the president of YC, a job he f'd up and got fired from, and then managed to parachute into being the CEO of OpenAI.
Some people just fail upwards. Mind boggling.
- sumedh 3y ago> a job he f'd up and got fired from Was he fired or he stepped down to be the CEO of Open AI? > Some people just fail upwards. Mind boggling. Didnt he hire the initial team and get investor money, that is a pretty good skill.
- sage76 3y agoHe was fired from YC : https://archive.ph/fLzoF https://archive.ph/fLzoF Brockman hired the top researchers with help from Yoshua Bengio. Elon Musk was the biggest initial donor, and he is on record saying that Ilya was the key hire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#History