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> The company is not profitable and miles away from being profitable, I’d go as far to say it doesn’t have a path to profit.

The board that fired Sam Altman is the board of the nonprofit.

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Irrelevant. I’m not dissing him for the company being non profitable - but given he didn’t have any input into building the tech (it was built in Google) and the product he lead is unimpressive by any measure (if you disentangle product from the technology underpinning it you zoom on the commercial aspects) - what did he do except influence his way to world leaders and the masses (a cynic might say con his way to world leaders and masses)?

Not saying that isn’t impressive - but it also usually isn’t what Hnews community values. So I’m just a bit perplexed.

HN is not a monolithic entity with a single opinion. I don't know what specific comments you're referring to, but I don't see any hagiographies myself. I've seen a lot of people hopeful that OpenAI will go in a different direction with him gone!

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