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OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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Re: OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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Is this what caused AAPL stock to drop ~$3 rapidly? (mostly recovered since then)

WWDC is today, any major stock price movement is almost certainly due whatever they are announcing.

Yes, I know, I was tracking the stock while watching WWDC. But there was a very sudden precipitous fall right when this was announced.

Re: OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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It looks like Silicon Valley really values the experience of execs from Instagram: OpenAI CPO: Kevin Weil, Instagram VP of Product 2016-2018 [1] Anthropic CPO: Mike Krieger, Instagram Cofounder and CTO 2010-2018 [2] OpenAI VP Consumer Product: Peter Deng, Instagram Head of Product 2013-2015 [3] [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinweil/ [2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger/ [3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete…

I can't think of another consumer software product as successful in users and $ as Instagram in the '10s.

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I don't think she's someone to be admired. Being ceo of an app that is IMO rife with bigotry, xenophobia, and scare mongering.

A bit unfair. A neighbourhood orientated social media platform is always going to have a vocal tiny minority of the people you described. I’d like to hear suggestions on how she as a CEO could prevent those issues

I would be sympathetic if it were not for their insane level of dark patterns, spam emails and growth hacking schemes. I had to make a blanket ban on @nextdoor.com email addresses because a dying relative was unable to parse their actual emails over nextdoor’s spam.

Re: OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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It looks like Silicon Valley really values the experience of execs from Instagram: OpenAI CPO: Kevin Weil, Instagram VP of Product 2016-2018 [1] Anthropic CPO: Mike Krieger, Instagram Cofounder and CTO 2010-2018 [2] OpenAI VP Consumer Product: Peter Deng, Instagram Head of Product 2013-2015 [3] [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinweil/ [2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger/ [3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete…

The Instagram mafia.

Re: OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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Nextdoor shares don't look like they did too well under her management.

> Nextdoor shares don't look like they did too well under her management. Isn't it fair to look at share price under their leadership? What other objective measures do we have of their management abilities? We take the OP's word for it that they're the best? Or is this like sports teams recycling the same 30 coaches?

> Or is this like sports teams recycling the same 30 coaches?

This.

The valley is nothing but a machine. Feed young engineers in one end and spit unicorns out the other. The same players make it all go.

Re: OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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Do these people actually even believe in AI? If not, they're there solely for the financialization and value-extraction, which means it goes downhill from here.

> Do these people actually even believe in AI?

The moment that every one who gave a shit about safety quit OpenAI you should have understood that there was no AI coming.

This has always been, and will always be about the money.

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Do these people actually even believe in AI? If not, they're there solely for the financialization and value-extraction, which means it goes downhill from here.

Kinda weird to expect a for-profit company to "care" about a technology outside of it making them more money TBH.

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Do these people actually even believe in AI? If not, they're there solely for the financialization and value-extraction, which means it goes downhill from here.

> Do these people actually even believe in AI? The moment that every one who gave a shit about safety quit OpenAI you should have understood that there was no AI coming. This has always been, and will always be about the money.

Implying that these people quite because they realized they weren't needed (no need for safety if AI isn't coming) rather than what seems like the common perspective being that safety initiatives always lost out over money making opportunities?

Re: OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)

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Do these people actually even believe in AI? If not, they're there solely for the financialization and value-extraction, which means it goes downhill from here.

Kinda weird to expect a for-profit company to "care" about a technology outside of it making them more money TBH.

Wasn't their goal to make AGI (and to make it available)? It's why I said what I did. Financialization runs in opposition to such altruistic goals. Someone has to now pay their hundred million dollar pay packages, and that someone is the customer.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

WWDC is today, any major stock price movement is almost certainly due whatever they are announcing.

Yes, I know, I was tracking the stock while watching WWDC. But there was a very sudden precipitous fall right when this was announced.

I also went to the bathroom around that time, so maybe that had an impact?
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