OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company

44 points
1/21/1970
a day ago
by root-parent

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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?

17 hours ago

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

2 hours ago

evanwolf

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

21 hours ago

SnorkelTan

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

20 hours ago

twalla

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

18 hours ago

dgellow

Doesn’t a sale require approval by OpenAI?

18 hours ago

browningstreet

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

20 hours ago

bayarearefugee

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

20 hours ago

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.

19 hours ago

Maledictus

21 hours ago

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.

21 hours ago

malfist

Executed so well we all take meetings in VR

20 hours ago

ergocoder

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

20 hours ago

dochaus

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

20 hours ago

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.

14 hours ago

QuantumNoodle

One year tenure. Yikes.

16 hours ago