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>>medler+(OP)
Man, the board already looked reckless and incompetent, but this solidifies the appearance. You can do crazy ill-advised things, but if you unwaveringly commit, we’ll always wonder if you’re secretly a genius. But when you immediately backtrack, we’ll know you were a fool all along.

>>skygaz+R1
Dude, everyone already thinks the board did a crazy ill-advised thing. They're about to be the board of like a 5 person or so company if they double down and commit.

To be honest I hate takes like yours, where people think that acknowledging a mistake (even a giant mistake) is a sign of weakness. A bigger sign of weakness in my opinion is people who commit to a shitty idea just because they said it first, despite all evidence to the contrary.

>>hn_thr+17
Bad take. Not "everyone" feels that what they did was wrong. We don't have insight into what's going on internally. Optics matter; the division over their decision means that its definitionally non-obvious what the correct path forward is; or, that there isn't one correct path, but multiple reasonable paths. To admit a mistake of this magnitude is to admit that you're either so unprincipled that your mind can be changed at a whim; or that you didn't think through the decision enough preemptively. These are absolutely signs of weakness in leadership.

>>015a+xg
> Bad take. Not "everyone" feels that what they did was wrong.

But everyone important does so who cares about the rest?

>>tick_t+Xl
You mean the “the rest” as in the people who execute on the company vision?

It’s really dismissive toward the rank and file to think that they don’t matter at all.

>>no_wiz+um
a) The company vision up until this point included commercial products.

b) Altman personally hired many of the rank and file.

c) OpenAI doesn't exist with customers, investors or partners. And in this one move the board has alienated all three.

>>threes+To
I seriously doubt customers or (most) partners care about this. I have yet to hear of a single customer or partner leave the service, and I do not believe it to be likely. Simply, unless they shut down their offerings on Monday they will have their customers.

Investors care, but if new management can keep the gravy track, they ultimately won’t care either.

Companies pivot all the time. Who is to say the new vision isn’t favored by the majority of the company?

>>no_wiz+tp
> I have yet to hear of a single customer or partner leave the service

Which doesen't mean a lot. Of course they'd wait for this to play out before committing to anything.

> but if new management can keep the gravy track

I got the vague impression that this whole thing was partially about stopping the gravy train? In any case Microsoft won't be too happy about being entirely blindsided (if that was the case) and probably won't really trust the new management.