When Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and other investors formed the startup behind ChatGPT as a US not-for-profit organization in 2015, Altman told Vanity Fair he had very little experience with nonprofits. 'So I'm just not sure how it's going to go,' he said. He couldn't have imagined the drama of this week, with four directors on OpenAI's nonprofit board unexpectedly firing him as CEO and removing the company's president as chairman of the board. But the bylaws Altman and his cofounders initially established and a restructuring in 2019 that opened the door to billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft gave a handful of people with no financial stake in the company the power to upend the project on a whim. Altman's firing caught investors off guard, including prominent firms such as Khosla Ventures, which has a significant stake in OpenAI, as well as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, which have smaller slices of shares, according to two people familiar with the matter not...
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