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>>staran+(OP)
Some perspective ...

One developer (Ilya) vs. One businessman (Sam) -> Sam wins

Hundreds of developers threaten to quit vs. Board of Directors (biz) refuse to budge -> Developers win

From the outside it looks like developers held the power all along ... which is how it should be.

>>taway1+aP1
There are three dragons:

Employees, customers, government.

If motivated and aligned, any of these three could end you if they want to.

Do not wake the dragons.

>>adverb+yS1
The Board is another one, if you're CEO.

>>pdntsp+002
I think the parent comment’s point is that the board is not one, since the board was defeated (by the employee dragon).

>>elliot+322
I think the analogy is kind of shaky. The board tried to end the CEO, but employees fought them and won.

I've been in companies where the board won, and they installed a stoolie that proceeded to drive the company into the ground. Anybody who stood up to that got fired too.

>>pdntsp+T52
I have an intuition that OpenAI's mid-range size gave the employees more power in this case. It's not as hard to coordinate a few hundred people, especially when those people are on top of the world and want to stay there. At a megacorp with thousands of employees, the board probably has an easier time bossing people around. Although I don't know if you had a larger company in mind when you gave your second example.

>>davesq+ao2
No, I'm thinking a smaller company, like 50 people, $20m ARR. Engineering-focused, but not tech