Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

I was confused when the whole thing was going down.

I was more confused when the whole "board wants to backtrack and maybe resign" thing was going down.

I got even more confused when Emmett Shear was announced as the CEO.

...but never in a hundred years would I have imagined "haha just join Microsoft" as an actual alternative.

I remain, confused.

>>lannis+E
Sam joining MS was actually one of the theories I read in the initial, or one of the first, threads about his ouster. 10 billion dollar seems like a pretty steep recruiting cost, but MS knows what they are doing, right? Right?

>>hef198+J2
What Sam is going to bring to MS? Recruits? MS already has all the money and infra they need.

>>abhina+q3
And still they are hiring him. Different take: You are a CEO who just spend 10 billion to bevome a minority shareholder in the latest, hotest tech start up the world has ever seen. This start-up is controlled by a non-profit so. And then this non-profit kicks out the poster child of the whole industry, and you cannot do a thing about it. Well, you have to answer to a board as well. And what do you think that board will ask you about this whole affaire?

>>hef198+f5
It’s called damage control. Classic corporate playbook to control the narrative. Satya and the MSFT team are geniuses in that respect.

Sam will leave soon enough to start his own thing, but in the meantime there is no narrative problem for MSFT to deal with

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