| Paul Graham (@paulg): I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually
happened: > People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman. > That's not true. Here's what actually happened. > For several years he was running both YC and OpenAI, > but when OpenAI announced that it was going to > have a for-profit subsidiary and that Sam was going > to be the CEO, we (specifically Jessica) told him > that if he was going to work full-time on OpenAI, > we should find someone else to run YC, and he > agreed. If he'd said that he was going to find > someone else to be CEO of OpenAI so that he could > focus 100% on YC, we'd have been fine with that > too. We didn't want him to leave, just to choose > one or the other. https://x.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940 |