On: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough...

[righthand]

Turns out a quarter of a million dollar paycheck plus whatever they get for letting Microsoft gobble them up was more pressing for the staffers.

Unless these staff were the unsigned 5%.

[iaseiadit → righthand]

The employees had a lot more money than that on the line.

[righthand → iaseiadit]

> plus whatever they get for letting Microsoft gobble them up

The average salary there is $250k. More than that would be the vestment greater than their base, no?

[consumer451 → righthand]

As I understand it, there was supposed to be a liquidity event at a valuation of $86B, very soon. This event was no longer scheduled after Altman was removed.

[93po → consumer451]

Why have I not read this before it seems like the most obvious reason for all of this

[jacquesm → 93po]

I couldn't tell because that was pretty clear from day #1.

Here is an October 18 article about this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-18/openai-is...