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>>outrun+(OP)
I don't follow OpenAI or SV news all that much. Is this guy really that critical to the company? I thought Ilya Sutskever was the genius? Is this a non-compete thing, where they're scared Altman will take company secrets to a competitor, or is this dude actually a major factor in the company's success (and not just a lucky bystander)?

>>bogwog+6Q2
He made paul grahams list of 5 noteworthy start up founders in 2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html

After that he was Pres of ycombinator for a while.

Lucky? Sure. But I'd guess he's responsible for a significant amount of OpenAI's success.