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>>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
Exactly, he could just launch a new company, most of the current OpenAI staff would follow him.

>>sekai+y3
There must be an insane number of non-competes though, to stop that? Especially with the amount of VC funding - that must have been included?

>>eddtri+H4
Non-competes are not legally enforcable in California, or so I hear.

>>airspr+8b
I think the only edge cases are for executives of companies, and even then it's pretty limited, but I imagine this could be one of the examples. IANAL though - it's just from what I've seen discussed elsewhere.

https://www.ottingerlaw.com/blog/executives-should-not-ignor...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...