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		preommr on May 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Alt... Except that I don't think it was for PR reasons that almost the entire company sided with Altman. I'd say it has much more to do with the profitability and the goal of continuing to work on interesting problems with the best resources.

Atotalnoob on May 29, 2024 [–]

I guess no one listened to the podcast the BI article is written about.

Helen toner talks about this, and essentially the employees thought it was bring sama back or the company dissolves and they lose their jobs.

This was right near a tender offer, so employees had real money on the line in the short term.

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