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It’s crazy that the board brought Altman back just on employees threatening to quit, and fears that he would go to Microsoft! Employees could easily have been
by d--b 2y ago
It’s crazy that the board brought Altman back just on employees threatening to quit, and fears that he would go to Microsoft!
Employees could easily have been swayed by telling them that the guy was constantly lying and that Altman’s contribution was mostly veering OpenAi off its core mission.
And no one cared that Altman could flee to Microsoft. He’d have been absorbed and probably would have disappeared because of internal politics.
The board totally fucked up when they fired him and didn’t throw him under the bus by letting the world know that Altman is Silicon Valley at its worst.
- int_19h 2y agoThe board's plan for OpenAI (go slow, avoid publicity) would drastically reduce the compensation value for those employees. A typical OpenAI offer in 2023 was cited as $300k base, $800k PPU. It seems that this was really Altman's master stroke here - he not only hired peoplefor the company, but he ensured that all those people's rewards were directly tied to the success of his plans for the company. And it may well be the real reason why he released ChatGPT behind the board's back, as well - by triggering the "gold rush" he demonstrated this to employees in a way more convincing that any other argument.