But despite comments to the effect that the YC post indicated Sam’s departure, it doesn’t seem to say anything about it right now?
1. March 2019: "Sam is transitioning to Chairman of YC and has shifted his operational responsibilities at YC to other partners. This change will allow Sam to spend more time focusing on OpenAI while still being responsible, along with the rest of the partnership, for the long-term social and economic success of YC. Because YC is run as a partnership, there will be no significant operational change."
2. June 2020: "In May 2019, Geoff Ralston took over as YC President. At that time, Sam Altman stepped away from any formal position at YC."
3. April 2021: gone entirely
waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190310003417/https://blog.ycom...
Basically seems like they were updating it as leadership turnover happened as Sam went from president to chair to out, and Geoff from partner to president to out.
I have to imagine that the industry does not appreciate this kind of attention from the mainstream press. Everybody is making loads of money -- does it really matter if a particular business deal went south in a particular way? Maybe it's better if we all just focus on the exciting new things that are being built and all the value we're creating for the world and ourselves.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.ycom...
This is the old URL, and they indeed mentioned Sam leaving https://web.archive.org/web/20190316222853/https://blog.ycom...
Looking at those it looks like there was an edit:
> Updated on 6/12/20
> In May 2019, Geoff Ralston took over as YC President. At that time, Sam Altman stepped away from any formal position at YC.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201028062425/https://blog.ycom...
And then shortly after the edit disappeared too:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210423025128/https://blog.ycom...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/y-combinator-president-sam...
