Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

Re:Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward ... by refulgentis on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:25PM (#40448146)

You're right that in general Sam Altman isn't countersigning every OpenAI employee contract.

However, at some point a lawyer sat down and worked with people to write the form-contract, and someone said "you sure? you want them to sign an NDA on exit? with a clause that lets you claw back equity? (implicit: because that's not normal)"

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Re:Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward ... by danielmarkbruce on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:37PM (#40448296)

The form-contract is changing frequently at a company going through a lot of corporate changes and with a lot of freakishly talented employees who probably negotiate hard on contracts.

To be clear, he may well have known. But it isn't a given and in the grand scheme of things on a CEO brain, it would have been way down the list of capturing mind share.

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Re:Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward ... by refulgentis on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:43PM (#40448354)

Agree 100%, something tells me A) he really didn't know B) it's still scuzzy.

I'm taking a mental note to remember why mom always said to read e v e r y word before you sign.

I should have learned this at a younger age, somehow ended up 50/50 in an LLC I always assumed was going to be 70/30. Cost a lotttt of time and energy, essentially let them hold the company hostage for $60K later, after some really strange accounting problems were discovered. (my heart says they didn't take money, but they were distracted and/or incompetent)

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