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OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company

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misswaterfairy

With a number of high-level departures in recent months from OpenAI, one wonders just how much money they have left. And how close they might be to collapsing...

For a company that wants to have a massive IPO that would be worth multi-billions, if not trillions, is this the cue to leave the party before the music stops?

  • floro

    The bubble will burst someday. But I would be careful with predicting when. I have a bunch of extra cash ready to invest in the S&P500 when it finally pops

evanwolf

Four years to vest anywhere, what's the math to leave so early?

  • SnorkelTan

    The vested shares are unlikely to be worth anything, so they are essentially just working for a salary.

    • twalla

      There's a fairly liquid secondary market for OpenAI stock - see: Forge, Hiive, EquityZen

      • dgellow

        Doesn’t a sale require approval by OpenAI?

        • twalla

          Looks like you're right - I've only been on the buy side of this equation. The company has regular tender offers but that's significantly less liquid than my earlier comment implied.

    • browningstreet

      Outrageously untrue. So untrue there's a name for it.

      • bayarearefugee

        Perhaps everything is fine and this person and the bunch of other recent high profile OpenAI departures just really hate money.

        • browningstreet

          There’s a gulf of possibility between. I’m just disputing the idea they’re working only for paychecks because there are no secondary options for their vested stock.

Maledictus

https://archive.is/LSSto

ergocoder

OpenAI-Anthropic is similar to Twitter-Facebook.

Twitter was full of dramas at the exec and founder level, and that impacted their execution.

Facebook had strong leadership, was very focused, and executed well.

  • malfist

    Executed so well we all take meetings in VR

    • ergocoder

      That's true. By any standard, Facebook is very much a failure.

      • dochaus

        I saw sean parker closed a whole street in nyc today to have a crane move a giant painting into his brownstone

        • ergocoder

          What a failure. Only be able to afford a giant painting. A truly successful person should've been able to afford a football-stadium-sized painting.

QuantumNoodle

One year tenure. Yikes.

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