At the time, was it possible for people working at OpenAI to, er, "cash out"? I don't actually know the answer to that, but I'm suggesting that perhaps people

At the time, was it possible for people working at OpenAI to, er, "cash out"? I don't actually know the answer to that, but I'm suggesting that perhaps people had additional motives for the organization to preserve its current hype/investment growth strategies.