This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter from last year https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/. If this lawsuit results in the whole thing getting canned it might actually be good for OpenAI because it'll save them from pouring further billions down the drain over what will eventually be the Humane Pin 2.0.
Tangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s
"You'll never have to eat lunch alone--or at a bad place--again"
Classic SV
Funnier when you consider what Loopt amounted to.
Altman is such a shyster
Wow red polo with a green polo underneath and double popped collars
That’s a brave look
Did you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...
That was a style then. It may not be your thing or mine, but it's not puzzling that someone was caught up in a fashion style of the times.
It was a thing for a while in the early 2000s, mostly as a preppy status symbol. It was pretty much iconic SV founder uniform for a short time.
It was a preppy frat bro look of the mid-aughts.
It got pretty ridiculous. I had a few people in my classes that would do 4+ layers and show up looking like an artichoke.
https://www.verdalina.com/blogs/journal/the-popped-collar
2000s Silicon Valley chic
what a find
whoa
God, I still cringe every time I see that.
Becoming more vertically integrated would also just be profitable.
I wonder why so many ex apple followed this particular path of Kool Aid? or maybe this says more about how the rank and file are just as susceptible to kool aid as any average Silicon Valley schmuck
The slurping of the kool-aid is not limited to SV. I've seen it at a couple of companies I've worked at in the past. Both were media/post type of studios where one you've probably heard of before and the other probably not. They both had employees that had their tongues stained the color of the kool-aid they drank. Seeing people wearing the SWAG shirts and hats of the company they work for in the office is just so cringe to me.
I'm not a huge fan of my old company, but they had great fitted & soft T-shirts. I wish I had more...
You like advertising for something you're not a huge fan of for free? The logic fails me
Comfy shirt to wear during yard work, working on the car, painting a wall, or laundry day around the house. It's reasonable to me.
Some people just don't like buying shirts.
I don't think it's Kool-Aid, I think it's "Apple has notoriously low salaries for a FAANG and OpenAI will probably have a trillion-dollar IPO". You can see right through Altman's charade and still want to work for him for equity.
If he really wants to be Steve Jobs he needs to get a woman pregnant the 'traditional' way and then abandon his child, but later proceed to name an expensive product after the child. Which I don't think is on the table as an option for Altman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs
But how is he doing at the 'ranting and yelling tirades at his staff' metric? That's also a known characteristic of Jobs.
We are all long aware that Jobs was a flawed individual.
But he made good products that most people like to use. That was GP they were getting at with "he wants to be Steve Jobs."
You don't need to hamfist that into the conversation every times Jobs' name comes up.
IMO it's not a outrage/apologist thing anymore, just played out and irrelevant. There are so many current problems that we don't need to dig up things about Jobs - or defend him. Let's fix-forward.
Altman has far worse issues, considering his alleged actions towards his sister.
No need to be disrespectful.
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Why do you focus on the dead and not on the living who have done as bad?
Why do you assume I don't also criticize living jerks?
You can, and should, do both.
The mythologising of some really bad people got us here.