Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

The AI-risk community has also learned that novel corporate-governance structures cannot constrain executives who are hell-bent on acceleration. That was the big lesson of OpenAI's boardroom fiasco. “The governance model at OpenAI was supposed to prevent financial pressures from overrunning things,” Ord said. “It didn't work. The people who were me

“Great things will never happen with VCs or professional managers,” Musk told Inc. Magazine. “They don’t have the creativity or the insight.” One of the Mohr Davidow partners, Derek Proudian, was installed as interim CEO and tasked with selling the company. “This is your first company,” he told Musk. “Let’s find an acquirer and make some money, so

but the underlying theme is that it helped Microsoft maintain its much-needed chokehold on the enterprise space and keep the valuable business and data of LinkedIn away from its opponents.