Of course, the trillion dollar comes out on top...
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Of course, the trillion dollar comes out on top #samaltman #openai #microsoft #tech #businessnews

1:28 Jun 08, 2025 864,100 61,600
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Okay, so to catch everyone up, if this is about Ilya's hair, we don't have time for that right now. We invested a total of $13 billion into OpenAI, and on Friday their board fired co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, and President Greg Brockman resigned in protest. This is how OpenAI is set up. It's a non-profit, but it has a smaller for-profit entity, OpenAI Global, that has to be able to pay a competitive salary. It's worth $90 billion, but it sits down here in the company structure. The board of OpenAI sits up here. They were selected with the ultimate goal of ensuring safe artificial general intelligence. For the board, that goal takes precedent over creating any profit. This is where things went wrong on Friday. On the well-known Gandhi Monopoly Man Index, the board wants to be as poor as Gandhi, and Sam has two hotels on boardwalk. In terms of safety, the board is much closer to lifeguard of a puddle than Tom Cruise doing his own stunts. So they decided to fire Sam to protect their ultimate goal of safe AI. Isn't it more dangerous now that the company is in total chaos? Yeah, obviously. That's why we stepped in to protect our investment. We initially tried to broker a deal to keep Sam and Greg at OpenAI and have the board step down. But OpenAI is kind of in shambles right now. Before they fired Sam, they didn't tell anyone, not even management. So 90% of the company's employees have signed a letter asking the board to step down, including Ilya, who's on the board. Since that's such a mess, we offered Sam and Greg positions at Microsoft to cover our bases, but it seems like they're going to try to flip two more board members and get back to OpenAI. So what I'm hearing is the company we invested $13 billion into is in shambles, and yet we're still fine? Yeah, better than ever. Our stock just hit an all-time high.

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