Liz Lopatto
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Podcast Appearances
It may hinder their ability to fundraise because that is really the thing that Sam Altman is best at.
He's not a tech guy in the way that some of these other people are tech guys.
he's a finance guy primarily.
And so if you kick over open AI, to me, the question is, okay, what happens to the rest of the industry?
Because SpaceX is about to go public.
So let's say we kick over open AI and then there's like,
What does that mean for the SpaceX IPO?
Like, to me, the funniest possible outcome is that Elon Musk wins a Pyrrhic victory, takes out OpenAI, and then absolutely shoots himself in the foot for his SpaceX IPO by doing it.
Well, it depends on how much reputation you think Elon Musk has left to lose.
I say that because one of the key witnesses for OpenAI is Siobhan Zillis, who is the mother of four of Musk's children, who was an OpenAI board member and was for a long time the liaison between OpenAI and Musk.
And we've seen some of her texts too, right?
Where she's like, oh, how close do you want me to be?
Do you want me to like, you know, get information for you?
And it's just like, so this is somebody who is extremely close to Musk who has had her texts brought into discovery.
And like, I'm thinking about some of the stuff that we saw from Theranos that was like, you know, the humiliating texts between Sunny Balwani and Elizabeth Holmes and
Like, I love you, my tiger or whatever that had no bearing whatsoever on the case, but that we all like got to read anyway.