> Adam D’Angelo is working on ChatGPT competitor Poe.

> Helen Toner & Tasha McCauley are working with OpenPhilanthropy/Anthropic on GovAI board (former board member Holden Karnofsky left when his wife started to get involved with Anthropic)

These seem like much larger conflicts of interest (working with direct competitors) than working on a company that one day this company might want to purchase a product from.

The board was anemic, lost people and didn’t replace them, and then was small enough that you could fire the chairman of the board and then remove the CEO in a friday night massacre.

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board