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mighmi parent
What is Sam's actual value re: AI and not just as a CEO/salesman-evangelist to get funding, which Microsoft doesn't need?

Is he particularly apt at leading/managing research teams? OpenAI's slow productization doesn't imply he's a product/idea guy a la Jobs.

alvis
Leadership - To stay top of the game, you can't just rely on brunch of engineers, but a person/team to pull everything into shape. Seeing how many employees are leaving for sama, you get the sense.
bananapub
what leadership? what examples of his leadership have been visible to the outside world? as far as I can tell, his entire career was:

1. failed startup 1. YC staff member 1. very creepy cryptocurrency grifter 1. openai ceo

where has he demonstrated such enormous value?

glimshe
In the last day this site has been all about him. That goes to tell you the mindshare he commands. This was a major victory orchestrated by Satya.
piva00
That just means he is popular in HN, doesn't say much more than that in regards to leadership, etc.

Being popular doesn't mean someone is efficient, or even has any merits apart from being able to become popular (Kardashians come to mind).

bananapub
> In the last day this site has been all about him.

I don't know what you mean? having lots of HN posts about you doesn't show leadership, it at most shows fanboyism amongst HN posters.

andrejguran
the last one in your list
bananapub
what observable value has he displayed?

he's just the ceo, he's not designing or implementing products, and I don't think I've ever even seen him say anything particularly insightful in public.

can you link me to something particularly impressive?

I must be missing something based on the huge amount of praise people heap on him, but no one ever seems to elaborate on why.

rashidrafeek
To pull out engineers from OpenAI?
omarfarooq
The exodus of personnel behind him.
karmasimida
Leadership

People believe his vision of AI

That is it

gexla
At the least, probably a good PR move for MS. It's a good move to counter whatever weight would be going against the MS stock price given they made a huge investment into OpenAI.
omarfarooq
Precisely why this was all announced into the early morning hours of Monday.
Racing0461
Makes sense why this was posted now.

I hope openai knows what they are doing. They have angered the man that turned microsoft from the dinosaur into the asteroid.

sys_64738
There's an implication that he's more of a leader than just pure lucky. Sort of more like Bill Gates than Zuck I guess.
chucke1992
Public perception and connections.
John7149
Likely being groom to take over Satya 10 years from now.
aiman3
that is what i thought, when Sam was fired, i think he is kind of people can be replaced by AI generated something ( ai-ceo ), not that complicate compare to engineer or scientist. and another replaceable one is Satya Nadella. and the ai-ceo maybe much less evil than them, since they are the one convert ( i am not sure if they committed fraud ) the non-profit, open source entity to for-profit and closed source entity.
pro212
yeah, Elon Musk invested tons of money to start openai as non-profit to make sure this openai thing is for all, not for couple of people to shine themself.

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