From interviews it sounds like Altman is personally very involved in all hires. So it's not surprising that employees are incredibly loyal He's also presenting

From interviews it sounds like Altman is personally very involved in all hires. So it's not surprising that employees are incredibly loyal He's also presenting the openai missions as a holy crusade. The alternatives for a cutting edge AI guru (who wants a disgustingly huge salary) is working for anemic bureaucratic advertising companies (Facebook and Google). While openai has a sexy new business model that nobody quite understands.. It's "not for profit" and "working for the good of humanity". Employees eat that up, while getting a fat paycheck - and I think very sensibly convince themselves it's true Add on top of that, you're part of an exclusive club working on some Manhattan project-like cutting edge stuff. You wanna miss out on all the fun ? They allegedly have tons of secret stuff in the pipeline, it must be exciting to be on the inside From the point of view the lies and manipulations are all small potatoes in the grand scheme of things and just look like Altman trying to get shit done in the face of stupid layer of bureaucracy in his way (ie. The board)