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by chpatrick 949 days ago
Don't you think it's weird that maybe the most important company in 2023 has people with no documented experience on its board?
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I'm ambivalent because I don't know what the board and executive team are trying to accomplish.

And neither does anyone else on this forum.

The Monday morning quarterbacking is hysterical.

Treating the non-profit OpenAI board like the board for a regular for-profit is weird.

This isn't just a non-profit holding company for tax purposes - the whole thing is structured with the intent of giving the non-profit complete control over the for-profit to help achieve the non-profit's charter.

The board being full of typical business people would likely be counterproductive to the goal of staying focused on the non-profit charter vs. general commercial business interests.

I don't know enough about most of the board to have any sort of real judgment about their ability, but there's a lot of comments here that are judging board members based on very different criteria than what they were actually brought in for.