[potamic]

What lessons are you alluding to? He's essentially telling them to go start their own company if they want things their way. But their resistance might've played a role in the end in preventing Musk taking control of the company.

[baxtr]

I assume the conflict is around how they set it up in a first place. They didn’t want the researchers to be financially motivated.

> The researchers would have significant financial upside but it would be uncorrelated to what they build, which should eliminate some of the conflict (we’ll pay them a competitive salary and give them YC equity for the upside). We’d have an ongoing conversation about what work should be open-sourced and what shouldn’t. At some point we’d get someone to run the team, but he/she probably shouldn’t be on the governance board.