Sam Altman & the Battle for OpenAI | If You Come At the King… | 2

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s move to fire Sam Altman with no warning kicks off five days of chaos for the tech company. After he gets over the shock, Altman uses all his corporate savvy to fight back. For days, over McDonalds and Boba tea, Altman and the board feud over the path forward for Altman and OpenAI, while the business community waits on tenterhooks to find out the future of one of the most important AI companies in the world.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's just after 1130 a.m. on November 17th, 2023 in Redmond, Washington.
0:28.0	A young woman strides quickly through the halls of Microsoft Headquarters.
0:32.0	Her heart is racing and her palms are sweaty. Chief
0:35.6	Technology Officer Kevin Scott asked her to get CEO Sautea Nadella out of his meeting
0:40.6	immediately. There's an emergency. Her fellow Microsoft
0:44.9	employees watch as she practically trots through the office. She knows they
0:49.7	must see the worry on her face. She reaches the door to a conference room where she can
0:55.1	hear Nadella talking through the closed door. The woman takes a deep breath and
0:59.4	opens the door. Nadella abruptly stops talking and everyone around the conference table turns to stare at the young woman.
1:07.0	Her mouth goes dry.
1:09.0	Nadella looks at her, confused.
1:11.0	We're in the middle of a meeting. The woman crosses to him and
1:15.1	whispers in his ear.
1:16.1	Kevin asked me to come get you right away. Open AI is firing Sam Alman.
1:21.2	Nadella's face morphs from confused to shocked.
1:26.4	He's quiet for a moment.
1:28.2	Microsoft is open AI's biggest investor, and Nadella has worked closely with Altman for four years.
1:35.1	He likes and respects him, and from his perspective, everything has been going well at
1:39.7	Open AI.
1:41.6	Nadella is blindsided by the news.
1:44.7	He stands up.
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