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But really, I think what they're trying to do or what they said they're interested in is...

helping to shape some of the decisions that are being made inside of the company.

I think they know they get a bit more of a seat at the table.

If they have the microphone, they're working inside of OpenAI, they're getting feedback from people.

I think this is something that, you know, they're hoping that they can make a bigger impact in the AI industry.

I think once all this is finalized, TVPN is going to sit under OpenAI's strategy team.

They're going to report to Lien, who's a longtime political strategist.

He's kind of known for coining the phrase vast right wing conspiracy during his time in the Clinton White House.

And he's often described as a practitioner of the, quote, political dark arts.

That's from a quote from TechCrunch, which is pretty funny.

But Lehman also played a big role in shaping a lot of the different political narratives inside of Washington.

He was really instrumental behind a lot of the crypto industry super PAC fair shake, which spent really, really heavily in the 2024 election cycle to basically counter a lot of the anti crypto candidates.

Since he joined OpenAI, he's also been reportedly very active in policy circles.

He's advising Donald Trump on some AI related issues, from kind of limiting state level AI regulation to easing environmental constraints around data center expansion.

So

I think for, you know, all's concerned as far as OpenAI or Sam Altman goes, he doesn't seem very concerned about the optics.

I think he did a social post and he called TVPN his favorite tech show and he made it clear that he expects the tone to remain unchanged.

So he said, quote, I don't expect them to go any easier on us.

I'm sure I'll do my part to help enable that with occasional stupid decisions.

Haha, very funny, Sam.