[rllearneratwork]

>> "A huge chunk of the company went into open revolt and he got a competing offer that threatened to recruit all of them"

- They had a huge funding (>80B?) round planned in which employees could cash-in. Without Sam that round was guaranteed to not happen. So they all had huge financial incentive to support them. Which I guess, characterizes him as a great manager who thinks many steps ahead.

[carlossouza]

The non-profit-good-for-humanity speech is such a hypocrisy.

All incentives all different stakeholders (employees, leadership, board, investors) have are all aligned with the full for-profit side of the organization. In fact, that’s the only side.

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome”. Charlie Munger

[fsckboy]

>“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome”. Charlie Munger

"Show me the loot, and I'll show you the theft" - Willie Sutton (when asked why he robbed banks, what he actually said was "Because that's where the money is")

[tptacek]

The "loot" here was compensation for the OpenAI employees actually doing the work, and they took it from a board that was doing... none of that work.