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Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman appears in Sam Altman on YC, OpenAI, and the Meaning of Formidable through Sam Altman’s board-composition lesson from the OpenAI Board Crisis. Altman says Hoffman, Shivon Zilis, and Will Hurd left the OpenAI board in quick succession for different reasons, and that he does not think the November 2023 crisis would have happened if even one of them had remained.

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