Nitasha Tiku

Sam Altman's having the worst week in tech.

Listen, I think we know, again, why tech CEOs don't sue each other.

You know, there's this Elon Musk, Sam Altman lawsuit that's playing out right now in the courts.

And yesterday we got this release of a trove of text messages between Sam Altman and Mira Marotti discussing Sam's firing from OpenAI as CEO a couple years ago.

I don't know if you remember this drama.

Sam was sort of temporarily fired CEO from OpenAI before coming back.

And he just looks so pitiful in these messages.

And people have been screenshotting them.

They're becoming memes.

He texts Mira while Mira's in this meeting.

She was on the board saying, can you indicate directionally good or bad?

She says, directionally very bad.

Okay.

So I've seen people saying, how are things going?

When my editor asked for my draft, I say, directionally very bad.

It's become a joke.

I saw that 120,000... Maybe we do the alpha versus beta of the week.

I don't know if you guys saw the message from Brian Armstrong that he posted, the co-founder and CEO at Coinbase.

He posted that he had made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by 14%.

And he said it basically in this long sort of Bill Ackman style post that just average people are like shipping production ready code using AI, right?