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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by ac2u on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:56PM (#38373626)
> Just look at the Reddit reverse takeover as an example; Machiavelli would be in awe.

What were the details on that? (Sorry it’s not an easy story to find on Google given how much the keywords overlap with OpenAI topics)

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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by atombender on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:18PM (#38373795)
Yishan Wong's comment here [1] explains it. (He's the unnamed "young up-and-coming" CEO of the story.)

In short, the plan was to reduce Condé Nast's ownership of Reddit by hiring a new CEO, and convincing that person to demand, as a condition for their hiring, that CN reduce their ownership share. Further VC funding and back-room machinations let them further reduce CN's share of the company, thus eventually wresting control over Reddit back to the original founders. Yishan was subsequently pushed out and Ellen Pao promoted to CEO, which didn't go so well either.

Both Altman and Pao are responding in that thread.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/comment/c...

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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by rmathew on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:43PM (#38374033)
Corrected URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by peyton on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:45AM (#38377946)
FYI it’s a joke in case this is going over anybody’s head. Ellen Pao even played along: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by nicce on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:28PM (#38373886)
The link says “Page not found”
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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by atombender on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:31PM (#38373905)
Looks like the HN app I was using mangled the link. Fixed now.
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