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

[gracchus]

There are no easy stories here

There is one, just not one that anyone in SV is interested in hearing. Quoting myself from the earlier topic:

@gracchus

However this shakes out, it’s a vignette about the dangers for tech companies (and their employees) that invest themselves entirely in a single person whose main value becomes popularity tied to fickle media coverage and fanboi popularity. We’ve seen this with outright crooks like Bankman-Fried, with unstable egomaniacs like Musk, with techno-utopian greedy guts like Andreesen, and now with Altman (who just seems like a more thoughtful and less publicly obnoxious variation on the successful SV VC who finds it useful to also be seen as a tech visionary tycoon).

We can also add the Cruise guy to the list.

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