Sam Altman gets job at Microsoft after weekend of "news" about him returning to CEO post at OpenAI

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Muggles aren’t meant to understand the marketing wizardry world.

Billionaire chronicles

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is like an AnCap Hogwarts for grifters. They take in budding Valley Bros, and teach them marketing hype wizardry, longtermism, and then at the end, the Grifting Hat gives them corporate paperwork, a big bag of VC money, keys to offices already staffed with libertarian types, and most importantly: their grifting gimmick. “Bankman-Fried, your gimmick is an imaginary bank.” “Altman, you get a fancy autocomplete and a ball that steals souls.” “Holmes, your gimmick is fa…

Grifting Hat: ”Vogt, your gimmick is a (mostly) self-driving car.”
Vogt: ”Didn’t Elno get that too?”
GH: ”We don’t talk about Elno-no-no…”