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its gotta sting Emmett Shear that he's now known to be at least 3rd choice for the role... and may not even keep it

On the contrary, it probably feels like he's doing someone a favor. It's not a great role to accept right now.

if you told me 4 days ago that it'd be "doing someone a favor" to take the ceo job at openai... i'd have said you are hallucinating very badly

well, that's one of the things OpenAI is known for

You think CEOs actually think like that?

Emmett was a part-time YC partner.

So there might be bad bad blood and he's doing it to spite YC, or it could be that he's in the loop with the insider chat and is stepping up to rescue what money they can and the VCs will pat him on the back?

Altman himself was pushed out of the president role at YC, not sure if Shear was a partner then. If he was he'd know the inside scoop

Regarding saving VCs money, if he pushes too hard for commercialization over safety he risks his job.

> Altman himself was pushed out of the president role at YC,

I thought he was close to PG.

Yeah, he is. People on the internet make up facts fast.

After his quiet departure, the YC communication team edited his Wikipedia page to remove his affliation with YC. Make of that what you will, but I don't think many would even bothering doing that for an ex-employee if they were beloved

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