After OpenAI Drama, Sam Altman Shares List Of Learnings He Wishes "Someone Told" Him

The OpenAI Chief suggested that companies should spend time while recruiting and "take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement".

Recently, ChatGPT maker OpenAI witnessed a harrowing time after it fired CEO Sam Altman. The artificial intelligence community witnessed high drama for five days before OpenAI reached an agreement to bring back Sam Altman as the CEO and appoint new board members after nearly all of its employees threatened to quit over his ouster. Mr Altman later stated that he learnt a lot from the whole incident despite its "painful cost". Now, in a blog post, he shared a list of things "what i wish someone had told me".

The blog was shared two days ago and has amassed over two lakh views. "Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished," Mr Altman said. He added that there is a dearth of long-term direction; it will become easier with time, so try not to worry about what people think of you now.

Further, he noted that it is "easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn't really matter; audacious ideas motivate people". Mr Altman said that incentives need to be set carefully and called them "superpowers".