Let that last paragraph sink in. The leadership team ex-Greg is clearly ready to run the company without Altman.
I’m struggling to interpret this, so your guesses as to what this might mean would be helpful. It seems he clearly wanted to come back—is he threatening to leave again if he doesn’t get his way?
Also note Ilya not included in the leadership team.
While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI.
This statement also really stood out to me—if there really was no ill will, why would they have to discuss how Ilya can continue his work? Clearly there’s something more going on here. Sounds like Ilya’s getting the knife.
Also, his statements in the verge are so bizarre to me:
“SA: I learned that the company can truly function without me, and that’s a very nice thing. I’m very happy to be back, don’t get me wrong on that. But I come back without any of the stress of, “Oh man, I got to do this, or the company needs me or whatever.” I selfishly feel good because either I picked great leaders or I mentored them well. It’s very nice to feel like the company will be totally fine without me, and the team is ready and has leveled up.”
2 business days away and the company is ready to blow up if you don’t come back and your takeaway is that it can function without you? I get that this is PR spin, but usually there’s at least some amount of plausible believability.
Maybe these are all attempts to signal to investors that everything is fine, even if Sam were to leave it would still all be fine, but at some point if I’m an investor I have to wonder if given how hard Sam is trying to make it look like everything is fine, that things are very much not fine.
I’m struggling to interpret this, so your guesses as to what this might mean would be helpful. It seems he clearly wanted to come back—is he threatening to leave again if he doesn’t get his way?
Also note Ilya not included in the leadership team.
This statement also really stood out to me—if there really was no ill will, why would they have to discuss how Ilya can continue his work? Clearly there’s something more going on here. Sounds like Ilya’s getting the knife.
Also, his statements in the verge are so bizarre to me:
2 business days away and the company is ready to blow up if you don’t come back and your takeaway is that it can function without you? I get that this is PR spin, but usually there’s at least some amount of plausible believability.
Maybe these are all attempts to signal to investors that everything is fine, even if Sam were to leave it would still all be fine, but at some point if I’m an investor I have to wonder if given how hard Sam is trying to make it look like everything is fine, that things are very much not fine.