I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened:
> People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman.
> That's not true. Here's what actually happened.
> For several years he was running both YC and OpenAI,
> but when OpenAI announced that it was going to
> have a for-profit subsidiary and that Sam was going
> to be the CEO, we (specifically Jessica) told him
> that if he was going to work full-time on OpenAI,
> we should find someone else to run YC, and he
> agreed. If he'd said that he was going to find
> someone else to be CEO of OpenAI so that he could
> focus 100% on YC, we'd have been fine with that
> too. We didn't want him to leave, just to choose
> one or the other.
https://x.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940
I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened:
> People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman.
> That's not true. Here's what actually happened.
> For several years he was running both YC and OpenAI,
> but when OpenAI announced that it was going to
> have a for-profit subsidiary and that Sam was going
> to be the CEO, we (specifically Jessica) told him
> that if he was going to work full-time on OpenAI,
> we should find someone else to run YC, and he
> agreed. If he'd said that he was going to find
> someone else to be CEO of OpenAI so that he could
> focus 100% on YC, we'd have been fine with that
> too. We didn't want him to leave, just to choose
> one or the other.
https://x.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940