By announcing that someone who doesn’t sign the restrictive agreement is locked out of all future tender offers, OpenAI effectively makes that equity, valued at millions of dollars, conditional on the employee signing the agreement — while still truthfully saying that they technically haven’t clawed back anyone’s vested equity, as Altman claimed in his tweet on May 18.
Okay I guess the half-truth is more like this:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351132/openai-vested-equity-nda-sam-altman-documents-employees