Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor
Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman's personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts
NEW: when sam altman was briefly fired from openai, its board had grown concerned about his startup investments and the conflicts they posed we have new reporting that shows these issues are more alive than ever read more in our @WSJ investigation below:
>Altman owns zero equity in OpenAI >makes only $66k salary >but he continues to push OpenAI to invest in companies >where he personally owns big stakes The board promised to fix these conflicts... but never actually did. “The structural problem that got @sama fired in 2023 was [i…
I think they should also be concerned about an IPO for a company that cannot and will not ever make a profit that also has liability from suicide to mass shootings to intellectual property and copyright law that is on the order of a size of infinity [embedded post]