Is it just different because they’re a nonprofit? Or how on earth the board is thinking they can get away with this anymore?
I have seen this play out many times in different locations for different people. A lot of technical folks like myself were given the advice that actions speak louder than words.
I was once scouted at a silicon valley selenium browser testing company. I migrated their cloud offering from VMWare to KVM, which depended on code I wrote and then defied my middle manager by improving their entire infrastructure performance by 40%. My instinct was to communicate this to the leadership, but I was advised not to skip my middle manager.
The next time I went the office I got a severance package and later found out that 2 hours later during the all hands they presented my work as their own. The middle manage went on to become the CTO of several companies.
I doubt we will ever find out what really happened or at least not in the next 5-10 years. OpenAI let Sam Altman be the public face of the company and got burned by it.
Personally I had no idea Ilya was the main guy in this company until the drama that happened. I also didn't know that Sam Altman was basically only there to bring in the cash. I assume that most people will actually never know that part of OpenAI.
What happened in the days before you got the severance package?
Do you have an email address or a contact method?
I would not be surprised if Sam Altman would keep telling the board and more specifically Ilya to trust him since they(he) don't understand the business side of things.
> Do you have an email address or a contact method?
EDIT: It's in my profile(now).
> What happened in the days before you got the severance package?
I went to DEFCON out of pocket and got booted off a conference call supposedly due to my bad hotel wifi.
(I'm genuinely curious—in the US I'm not aware of any action that could be taken here by anyone besides possibly Sam Altman for libel.)
Investors in OpenAI-the-business were literally told they should think of it as a donation. There’s not much grounds for a shareholder lawsuit when you signed away everything to a non-profit.
