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by wahnfrieden 945 days ago
It’s simply greed:

OAI employees have $5-20m+ equity packages and want that number to grow, and they trust the guy who’s made himself the face of the company through its growth

The large financial stakes of OAI employees is more powerful than ideas about morality or idealism that are offered as the reasons here

They have an opportunity to sell equity next month as well in a second offering and obviously don’t want to wipe out that value suddenly. The workers stand to make hugely generational wealth overnight. Of course that’s on their mind as otherwise wage earners.