Keep pulling the thread on Greg Brockman.
The OpenAI board informed Greg Brockman via video call that Sam Altman was being removed as CEO.
During the same video call where Sam Altman's removal was announced, Greg Brockman was also informed he was being removed from the OpenAI board but would remain with the company.
Greg Brockman resigned from OpenAI on the same day he was removed from the board.
Key OpenAI researchers Yakub Pachocki, Szymon Sidor, and Aleksander Madry resigned on the same day as Greg Brockman.
During the leadership crisis weekend, the OpenAI board replaced interim CEO Mira Murati, which triggered a rebellion among employees.
An employee petition demanding the return of the former leadership received so many simultaneous signatures that it crashed Google Docs.
Ilya Sutskever, who was on the board that ousted Sam Altman, later signed the employee petition calling for the previous leadership to be reinstated.
Despite competitors actively recruiting OpenAI employees during the leadership crisis, not a single person accepted a competing offer.
On the first day after being ousted from OpenAI, Greg Brockman estimated there was only a 10% chance that he and Sam Altman would be able to return to the company.
Greg Brockman considers Ilya Sutskever's eventual departure from OpenAI to be one of the hardest moments for him at the company and the only time he felt like he didn't want to continue.
Greg Brockman believes that OpenAI's accomplishments would not have been possible without the massive amount of capital the company was able to raise.