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The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating chaos at the artificial-intelligence start-up — complaints that were a major factor in the board’s abrupt decision to fire the CEO
Gift link to article: https://wapo.st/3RyScpS
Yeah, Altman is a complete ass and very full of himself. Not at all surprising.
He had a weird exit from Y Combinator too, I don’t doubt this at all.
But in those days with the company on the line with everyone trying to dig in to why he got fired, nobody leaked this? Nobody had a good example of something he did which was not acceptable behavior for a CEO?
I just can’t see it being a big enough deal to fire him over so abruptly, without even telling Microsoft ahead of time, if nobody has the killshot example of him doing something crazy. Maybe he’s just an asshole. There are lots of asshole CEOs.
He was so bad everyone was going to go with him to Microsoft?
I don’t think it is clear that everyone wanted to follow to Microsoft: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12
Money is a hell of a drug
Yeah seems like a lot of one sided drama