OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too::OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman announced that he’s quitting just hours after CEO Sam Altman was fired. OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati is taking over as interim CEO.

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    1 year ago

    They are invariably, actually, not very valuable at all beyond the fruition. Take a look at any Forbes or FT top 100 list and see how many of those companies are being run by founders.

    Companies go through a lifecycle of change before they reach anything resembling stability or a pace of business that isn’t completely volatile the people in it. During that time the types of people that the business need to achieve the goals of that lifecycle stage are very different.

    Steve Jobs types, on the other hand, are actually extremely rare and the exception rather than the rule.

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      1 year ago

      Take a look at any Forbes or FT top 100 list and see how many of those companies are being run by founders.

      This is still not answering my question of “why?”

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        Because it requires a completely different skill set to run a startup with only yourself and 50 employees to worry about vs a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company. People that are good at one of those often aren’t good at the other, so when their company changes from the former to the latter, they get the boot for someone better at running the new version of the company.

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          Sure, that’s why you bring on other people with those skillsets to fill those roles. Doesn’t mean you have to remove the people who pioneered the company? The “vision”, so to speak. The people who understood what it took to make the company what it is in the first place? I mean look at what happened when they ousted Jobs.

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        1 year ago

        the types of people that the business need to achieve the goals of that lifecycle stage are very different.

        It was this bit