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You're right that in general Sam Altman isn't countersigning every OpenAI employee contract. However, at some point a lawyer sat down and worked with people to
by refulgentis 2y ago
You're right that in general Sam Altman isn't countersigning every OpenAI employee contract.
However, at some point a lawyer sat down and worked with people to write the form-contract, and someone said "you sure? you want them to sign an NDA on exit? with a clause that lets you claw back equity? (implicit: because that's not normal)"
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoThe form-contract is changing frequently at a company going through a lot of corporate changes and with a lot of freakishly talented employees who probably negotiate hard on contracts. To be clear, he may well have known. But it isn't a given and in the grand scheme of things on a CEO brain, it would have been way down the list of capturing mind share.
- refulgentis 2y agoAgree 100%, something tells me A) he really didn't know B) it's still scuzzy. I'm taking a mental note to remember why mom always said to read e v e r y word before you sign. I should have learned this at a younger age, somehow ended up 50/50 in an LLC I always assumed was going to be 70/30. Cost a lotttt of time and energy, essentially let them hold the company hostage for $60K later, after some really strange accounting problems were discovered. (my heart says they didn't take money, but they were distracted and/or incompetent)