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0 pointswordpad252y ago0 comments

>People keep speculating

Your take isn't uncommon, only are missing the main point of your interpretation - that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company.

It's not even that it's not a justifiable reason, but they did it without getting legal advice or consulting with partners and didn't even wait for markets to close.

Board destroyed billions in brand and talent value for OpenAI and Microsoft in a mid day decision like that.

This is also on Sam Altman himself for building and then entertaining such an incompetent board.

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qwytw2y ago

> that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company

It's perfectly obvious that these weren't the actual reasons. However yes, they are still incompetent because they couldn't think of a better justification (amongst other reasons which led to this debacle).

kmlevitt2y ago

>Your take isn't uncommon, only are missing the main point of your interpretation - that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company.

No, I totally agree. In fact what annoys me about all the speculation is that it seems like people are creating fanfiction to make the board seem much more competent than all available evidence suggests they actually are.

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