Emmett Shear is the new CEO of OpenAI

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Tonight at OpenAI, here's the scoop: Mira's strategy involved rehiring Sam and Greg. Over the past few days, she maneuvered Team Sam with the aim of compelling the board to terminate everyone, a move they believed the board wouldn't make. However, the board responded with complete silence and took matters into their own hands by locating their CEO, Emmett Shear (previously CEO of Twitch).

Microsoft is not very happy with this decision, and Sam himself is reportedly in shock. No idea what happens next. But what a crazy outcome.

MaxCreatesCode · Accepted Answer

Emmett Shear didn’t do a great job leading an established company…let alone OpenAI.  I’d love to know how he convinced them to make him CEO.

mfiguiere · Answer

Yo what's going on with this Twitch mafia. Kyle Vogt who just resigned from Cruise as CEO, was a founder at Twitch. And Emmett Shear now the CEO of OpenAI, was a founder and CEO of Twitch.

Are we supposed to expect an announcement soon where Kyle, Justin Kan, and Michael Seibel all join OpenAI?

zuhayeer · Answer

Emmett and Sam were in the same original YC class back in 2005. Nothing like a good ole family feud.

Antonio Vela · Answer

Still can't fathom looking at $80B and deciding to torch it on fire. There has to be some insane reason for Ilya to do this. But even still, difficult to understand the financial motivation when Sam had 0 equity.

raisinbran · Answer

This is craziness, they cycled through 2 CEOs in the period of a weekend. Sam and now Mira. Idk how long Emmett will last. Also wth, thought Sam and Emmett would be homies from YC

Emmett Shear is the new CEO of OpenAI

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