If I was at OpenAI making stupid money and I had to deal with a psycho boss once in a while, I’d probably be fine with it.<p>I think most people would, as was evident by the amount of people who backed him to come back as the CEO.<p>Not that every one of those people knew this, but there certainly were people who did.
With all the negative press Altman is getting, I wonder if he’ll step down at some point to appease public opinion and run things from the background instead. Seems somewhat reasonable but unlikely with his ego.
I believe everything she said about Sam. I don't doubt that he exaggerated how robust their safety processes were, or announced products without telling them first, or used company resources to benefit himself personally while denying he had a financial stake in the company.<p>I honestly believe that employees did talk about his toxic behavior, the role of a successful startup CEO can be achieved with surprisingly little people management skills.<p>But the board handled this horribly; it's unsurprising they lost the fight, and frankly, listening to her podcast, the main question I have is why she was on the board in the first place. The level of articulation, the weak framing of events, etc, are what I'd expect to hear out of a middle-level HR rep, not someone on the board of a billion+ dollar company.
She had months to come up with an explanation and this is all she can do?<p>I mean, I dislike Sam Altman as much as the next guy but if any of this was true she would have said it at the time.