“Based on today’s news, I quit.”

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too::OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman announced that he’s quitting just hours after CEO Sam Altman was fired. OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati is taking over as interim CEO.

  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    They are invariably, actually, not very valuable at all beyond the fruition. Take a look at any Forbes or FT top 100 list and see how many of those companies are being run by founders.

    Companies go through a lifecycle of change before they reach anything resembling stability or a pace of business that isn’t completely volatile the people in it. During that time the types of people that the business need to achieve the goals of that lifecycle stage are very different.

    Steve Jobs types, on the other hand, are actually extremely rare and the exception rather than the rule.

      • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Because it requires a completely different skill set to run a startup with only yourself and 50 employees to worry about vs a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company. People that are good at one of those often aren’t good at the other, so when their company changes from the former to the latter, they get the boot for someone better at running the new version of the company.

          • sunbeam60English
            2·
            1 year ago

            It unfortunately often does. It’s hard for the original founders to “let go” and some of the things that were idiosyncrasies at the scale of 10 are actively detrimental to people’s careers and the business’ wider growth when you’re 1000. Experienced founders often recognise when it’s time to hire the “VP Eng” that’ll replace them, but if it’s their first big go at it, they often cling on a bit longer that they should.

          • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Apple is now the most valuable company on earth, so I think you’re not making the point you think you’re making. Publicly traded companies act only based on what increases the value of their shares the most. If the current CEO isn’t seen as the most profitable CEO for the shareholders, they will eventually be replaced, even if they founded the company. That is a risk you knowingly take when taking your company public. Most founders choose the money that comes with an IPO, knowing they’ll eventually get the boot.

              • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Steve Jobs is the exception. I’m just trying to answer the original question about why this happens so often. I’m not trying to argue about the best way to run a company. But if you’re equating every founder with Steve Jobs then we’re having a completely different conversation.

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        the types of people that the business need to achieve the goals of that lifecycle stage are very different.

        It was this bit