Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

>>JimDab+(OP)
Anyone else find it strange that startup founders of the magnitude of Sam & Greg would join a gigantic corporation as employees?

It sounds very out of line of what you'd expect.

>>waihti+W
Maybe Sam thinks OpenAI will be so important he has a shot at CEO of Microsoft in a couple years?

>>eddtri+w1
But Satya is making a few 100 mil a year, tops. Sam could easily make himself a billionaire with one raise. And who wants to control all of Microsoft, that's a whole lot of headaches

>>jakey_+f2
According to [1], Nadella's base salary was $2.5m and stock awards and other compensation brought the total to ~$55m in 2022.

[1] https://microsoft.gcs-web.com/node/31056/html

>>vidarh+C4
I believe his total comp since becoming CEO passed 1B this summer, 9 years or so.

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