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I believe they had a shortlist, but no one stepped up to take the job.

Which is at least good to hear but typically you would think there would have been feelers out there to gauge temperature. Perhaps this is indicative of a board that does not have as much business professional experience.

Still hilarious that Emmett Shear was not only offered the role but accepted. Amusing to see the individual who said we need to severely slow down AI work to now be heading up the leading company in the space.

Edit: I guess the true measure is that nobody read the room from employees and went ahead with this whole fiasco.

Even then, that “shortlist” was clearly built in a total scramble after their first interim CEO sided with Sam.

There has to be a good reason on why this was rushed, it has to be a "now or never" kind of situation for this outcome. I presume the candidates on the shortlist were skeptical to accept the job until the smoke clears on the situation, they do not want to be on the bad side of this affair until it is known that accepting the job is not a career and network suicide.

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