“Based on today’s news, I quit.”

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.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    42·
    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?”

    • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      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