He's saying the attempt to virtue signal, via the low salary, is invalidated by these deals. The virtues would be mostly altruism I guess, that the AGI mission

He's saying the attempt to virtue signal, via the low salary, is invalidated by these deals. The virtues would be mostly altruism I guess, that the AGI mission was important enough to humanity for him to sacrifice opportunities to build personal wealth and so on. I think that's overblown personally, but certainly Altman would often repeat the line about having low salary and no equity.