OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by cma on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:18AM (#38363903)

Here's another anecdote, posted in 2011 but about something even earlier:

> "We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by kmlevitt on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:27PM (#38367841)

Call me unscrupulous, but I’m tolerant of stuff like that. It’s the willingness to do things like that that makes the difference between somebody reaching the position of CEO of a multibillion dollar company, or not. I’d say virtually everybody who has reached his level of success in business has done at least a few things like that in their past.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by cma on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:55PM (#38373623)

If you do that kind of thing internally though or against the org with an outside interest it isn't surprising that it wouldn't go over well. Though that isn't confirmed yet as they never made a concrete allegation.

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