What am I missing here: Sam Altman has zero charisma or cool factor. Every talk I've seen him in, he comes off as lethargic and sluggish. I get zero sense of passion or rallying drive around the hype of AI from him. Maybe he's good at fudging numbers to a specific set of people in a private room, but as a "reality distorter" for the masses he seems like a joke.
Perhaps he is not a reality distorter for the masses, but he is for the ones that work under him?
Clearly several people felt strongly about him enough to threaten (and go through with!) resignations.
Do the recent developments of around 700 in 770 people calling for board resignation answer this in your opinion?
I am genuinely asking for your view, not trying to sound sarcastic, as you may consider that this is just a vague threat and doesn’t count. To me it does, although obviously I wouldn’t say 700/770 is that fraction. The fraction of people feeling strongly about him in particular is a subset of this. It must be lower, but I’d say still quite significant — definitely above 20% of the company if I had to bet!!
