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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ethanbond on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:09AM (#38346303)
This has been a source of tension at least since the release of ChatGPT, so… yeah it’s not like the problem came out of nowhere. The governance structure itself is indicative of quite elaborate attempts to reconcile it.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by mbreese on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:33AM (#38347061)
I don’t know about that. Yes, there was tension built into the structure, something happened to trigger this. You don’t fire your CEO without a backup plan if this was an on going conflict. And if your backup plan is to keep the current president (who was the chair of the board until you removed him), that’s not a backup plan.

Everything points to this being a haphazard change that’s clumsy at best.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ethanbond on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:38AM (#38347109)
The question was “did they try to find compromise” not “was the firing haphazard.” The answer is definitely yes to the former.
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