A picture says a thousand words is the most appropriate idiom. Because if you put the pictures of the faces of all the people that started open air, one against the other, you cross out those that have gone and those that are left. It's just three people and one of them's on a sabbatical. What have you learned? Yeah, I mean, there were a lot of people at the start of this company. There were actually 11 of them, and now we're down to sort of three. We have two people actively working at the company. Sam Altman, of course, and Roy Jackson Ramba and Greg Brockman is currently on leave until the end of the year. So it's been a big change. I mean, there and there's C-suite as well has also changed and evolved. They changed over a lot of people and a lot of people have left. And then they've also expanded the number of people that they have in their

C-suite over the past year. What I really wanted to do with this story was just kind of look at how things have changed over time and sort of where all the power is going at this company. Does the power residing in fewer hands mean they are able to iterate, to innovate faster because it doesn't feel as though anything has been stopped in terms of the tidal wave of new innovations coming from open air despite the internal struggles. Yeah, a lot. So a lot has changed both internally and sort of like from the outside looking in at the company over the past year, since Sam Altman, the CEO, was briefly ousted and then returned. They had a lot of staff changeover also just the number of employees. There is more than double what it was late last year. It's at about 1700 people at this point. And so you see these changes and then you also see more people are reporting

to Sam. I mean, he said that publicly. There's a bit of a flattening of the organization there. And then they are pushing out these products one after the other after the other. There was one yesterday, actually. They just keep coming. So, you know, the push towards commercialization and there's an internal consolidation and a power. And it just shows that this company is really trying to move towards making more money, becoming a larger company, becoming more of like a corporate technology company.

OpenAI’s Altman Concentrates Power

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OpenAI’s Altman Concentrates Power

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