Will Hurd

Will Hurd appears in Sam Altman on YC, OpenAI, and the Meaning of Formidable as one of the former OpenAI board members Sam Altman names when discussing the November 2023 OpenAI Board Crisis. Altman says Hurd, Reid Hoffman, and Shivon Zilis left the board in quick succession for different reasons, and that the crisis likely would not have happened if even one of them had remained.

Connections

• OpenAI - board context.
• Sam Altman - source narrator making the board-composition claim.
• Reid Hoffman and Shivon Zilis - other departed board members named in the same point.
• OpenAI Board Crisis and Startup Governance - crisis and governance context.