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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by throwoutway on Friday November 17, 2023 @04:54PM (#38311014)
And of course he gives credit to the CEO and not the 400 people under him who actually built the thing, nor the other 10 people who actually founded the company. Nor those who gave initial funding. From wikipedia:

> OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as the initial board members.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by strikelaserclaw on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:27PM (#38311370)
I'm of the firm opinion that the heavy lifting at open ai is doing by the scientists but of courses ceos like to applaud themselves on the back for doing the "tough" job.
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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by otteromkram on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:26PM (#38311347)
Lots of companies are funded every year. Those without solid leadership and clear mission are bound to fail.

Founding a company is also fairly easy (if you're in the US). In most US states, you just need to complete some paperwork, pay administrative fees, and you're good to go.

Founding something isn't tough. Leading through adversity and setbacks is.

Finally, if we're praising workers, what about those who came and went between 2015 and today? That probably pushes the number higher than 400 FTEs.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by staticman2 on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:05PM (#38311894)
*Founding a company is also fairly easy (if you're in the US). In most US states, you just need to complete some paperwork, pay administrative fees, and you're good to go.*

This is true in the sense that being a CEO is also easy, you just fill out some paperwork that says you are CEO.

Are you saying the founders of OpenAI just filled out some paperwork and did nothing more?

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by throwoutway on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:22PM (#38313619)
What adversity and setbacks did Sam personally overcome?
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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by lmm on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:27PM (#38313662)
> Lots of companies are funded every year. Those without solid leadership and clear mission are bound to fail.

IME companies with solid workers (in engineering and elsewhere) but weak leadership and mission have a much better chance than the converse. Even the best companies rarely end up following the mission or the leader.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by satvikpendem on Saturday November 18, 2023 @01:56AM (#38316328)
No they don't. Leadership can make or break a company, that is why they are paid so much.
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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by throwoutway on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:36PM (#38336059)
Leadership without talented employees can break a company. That's why they are paid so...
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