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Apr 30, 2026
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OpenAI Was Dead. Then Ilya Sutskever Posted This | Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman
(Co-founder, OpenAI, guest)
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Executive Summary
Greg Brockman provides a firsthand account of the November 2023 OpenAI leadership crisis, detailing his and Sam Altman's sudden removal from the board.
The crisis triggered an unprecedented employee rebellion, including a petition that crashed Google Docs, demonstrating extreme loyalty and forcing the board to reverse its decision.
Despite a 'feeding frenzy' of recruitment from competitors during the turmoil, not a single OpenAI employee accepted a competing offer.
Brockman reflects on the personal toll of the event, the importance of leadership resilience, and the painful but necessary 'suffering' required to build transformative technology like AGI.
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