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1. nlh+x3[view] [source] 2023-11-17 20:39:26
>>davidb+(OP)
For a company that's executing so well (at least from an outside perspective), shipping so fast, growing so fast, and so ahead of the curve in arguably the hottest segment of the tech market, at this moment, to do this right now, means this must be REALLY bad.
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2. zmmmmm+8f[view] [source] 2023-11-17 21:21:42
>>nlh+x3
Yeah, this is like, we are getting sued for billions of dollars and directors are going to jail bad.

So my bet is either they lied about how they are using customer data, covered up a massive data breach or something similar to that. The only thing that's a bit hard to figure there is how specific this is to Altman. A big scandal would be leaking out I would think and more people would be getting fired.

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3. bpodgu+oj[view] [source] 2023-11-17 21:39:28
>>zmmmmm+8f
Yeah but the CTO is now interim CEO. Hard to imagine her getting the role if that was the case.
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4. amyjes+Hx[view] [source] 2023-11-17 22:50:11
>>bpodgu+oj
Unless she was the one who blew the whistle on him. Here's a hypothetical scenario:

- New feature/product/etc. launch is planned.

- Murati warns Altman that it's not ready yet and there are still security and privacy issues that need to be worked out.

- Altman ignores her warnings, launches anyway.

- Murati blows the whistle on him to the board, tells them that he ordered the launch over her objections.

- Data breach happens. Altman attempts to cover it up. Murati blows the whistle again.

- Board fires Altman, gives Murati the job as it's clear from her whistleblowing that she has the ethics for it at least.

Again, completely hypothetical scenario, but it's one possible explanation for how this could happen.

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5. sumthi+MN[view] [source] 2023-11-18 00:09:43
>>amyjes+Hx
or it's the other way around. she wants to launch because money and investors and that's all that she's really about.

he says fuck them and their money, it's not ready yet, here's a bunch of other things that will make people go wooooow.

she's not happy he does that because future. convinces the board of money and investors.

the board shits on humanity and goes for money and investors.

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6. rtpg+gV[view] [source] 2023-11-18 00:42:13
>>sumthi+MN
“Do a hugely public firing because a feature wasn’t launched” would probably be a first
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