OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been hit with a bout of unhealthy press up to now few weeks, which has solid a shadow over his once-squeaky-clean picture.
Amid these swirling dramas, legendary tech investor Paul Graham defended Altman by placing an previous rumor to relaxation.
Altman wasn’t fired from his put up as president of the famed startup accelerator, Y Combinator, Graham wrote in a put up on X on Thursday. Graham cofounded the accelerator in 2005, and Altman served as its president from 2014 to 2019.
In keeping with Graham, Altman was concurrently working OpenAI and Y Combinator till OpenAI introduced the creation of a brand new for-profit entity in 2019 and chosen Altman as president. Graham mentioned he and his spouse, Y Combinator’s cofounder Jessica Livingston, advised Atlman that if he wished to work at OpenAI, they’d discover one other particular person to run Y Combinator.
“If he’d mentioned that he was going to seek out another person to be CEO of OpenAI in order that he may focus 100% on YC, we would have been nice with that too,” Graham wrote. “We did not need him to depart, simply to decide on one or the opposite.
