OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been hit with a bout of unhealthy press up to now few weeks, which has forged a shadow over his once-squeaky-clean picture.
Amid these swirling dramas, legendary tech investor Paul Graham defended Altman by placing an outdated rumor to relaxation.
Altman wasn’t fired from his submit as president of the famed startup accelerator, Y Combinator, Graham wrote in a submit on X on Thursday. Graham cofounded the accelerator in 2005, and Altman served as its president from 2014 to 2019.
In line 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 needed to work at OpenAI, they’d discover one other individual to run Y Combinator.
“If he’d mentioned that he was going to search out another person to be CEO of OpenAI in order that he may focus 100% on YC, we might have been fantastic with that too,” Graham wrote. “We did not need him to go away, simply to decide on one or the opposite.
