zlacker

I mean this as an honest question, but what does Sam bring to the table that any other young and high performing CEO wouldn’t? Is he himself particularly material to OpenAI?

>>apppli+(OP)
Experience heading a company that builds high performance AI, I presume. I reckon the learnings from that should be fairly valuable, especially since there's probably not many people who have such experiences.

>>apppli+(OP)
Your first mistake is daring to question the cargo cult around CEOs.

>>apppli+(OP)
Ability to attract valuable employees, connections to important people, proven ability to successfully run an AI company.

>>apppli+(OP)
Funding, name recognition in the space

>>apppli+(OP)
You mean besides the business experience of already having gone down this path so he can speedrun while everyone else is still trying to find the path?

Easy; his contacts list. He has everyone anyone could want in his contacts list politician tech executives financial backers and a preexisting positive relationship with most of them. When alternative would be entrepreneurs are needing to make a deal with a major company like Microsoft or Google it will be upper middlemanagement and lawyers, a committees or three will weigh in on it present it to their bosses etc. With Sam he calls up the CEO and has few drinks at the golf course and they decide to work with him and they make it happen.