Karen Hao

He was actually sowing more chaos, getting these teams to be more divided.

And this is where...

It's important to understand that the executives and the independent board members, they're all operating under this idea that they're building AGI and that AGI could either be devastating or utopic to humanity.

And so it's not, yes, it's like any other company.

And no, it's not like any other company.

You cannot have, like in their view, you cannot have this degree of chaos as the pressure cooker for creating a technology that they, in their conception, could make or break the world.

And so that is basically what the independent board members also begin to reflect on.

They have these conversations amongst themselves where they're like,

Well, based on what we're hearing about Altman's behavior, like, if this was an Instacart, would that warrant firing him?

And they concluded, maybe not.

But this is not Instacart.

And that's why they were like, well, crap.

Maybe this is actually—this does rise to the bar where we should consider replacing him because we are ultimately building a technology that we think could have—

transformative impacts, either in the positive or negative direction.

And so that is what happens.

It's like these two executives and then the independent board members also, they were hearing other feedback as well from their connections within the company, with other people in the industry.

At one point, Adam D'Angelo, who is one of the independent board members and the CEO of Quora, which is a tech startup in the Valley, he is at a party in San Francisco and he starts to hear some of these rumors that

Mm-hmm.

And he realizes they'd never really seen documentation about how the startup fund had been set up from Altman.

And finally, they get the documents and it turns out that OpenAI Startup Fund is not OpenAI's startup fund.