Bret Taylor: evaluation

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…Well, I mean, it's super well navigated. I have, I've got one more and then we can sort of move on on this topic. The the, the Microsoft offer was real, right? For Sam and team to move over at some, at one point in that weekend. I'm not sure. I was sort of in it from one vantage point, which was actually, it's interesting. It's like, I didn't really have. Particular skin in the game. So like I came up with this, I still don't own any equity in open AI. I was just I was just a meaningful bystander in the process. And the reason I got involved and and it will get to answer your question, but the reason I got involved was just because I cared about open AI. So. You know, I had left my job at Salesforce and by coincidence, the next month chat GBT comes out and, you know, I got nerd sniped like everyone else. I'm like, I want to spend my life on this. This is so amazing. And I wouldn't, I don't know if I'd be, I wouldn't, I'm not [01:20:00] sure I would have started another company if not for open AI, kind of inspiring the world with chat GPT, maybe I would have, I don't know, but it was like, it had a very significant impact on you, all of us, I think. So the idea that it would dissolve in a weekend just like bothered me a lot. And I'm very, like, I'm very grateful for, for open AI's existence. And, and I, my guess is that is probably shared by a lot of the competing research labs to different degrees too. It's just like it kind of that rising tide lifted all boats. Like I think it created the proverbial iPhone moment for AI and, and changed, changed the world. So there were lots of. Microsoft is an investor in open AI. It has a vested interest in it. The Sam and Greg had their interests. The employees had their interests and there's lots of wheeling and dealing. And I, you know, you can't AB test decision making. So I don't know if like things had fallen apart with that. I don't, I don't actually know. And you also don't know, like what's real, what's not. I [01:21:00] mean, so you'd have to talk to, to them to know it was really real. So. Mentioning advisors. I heard it seems like Brian Armstrong was. surprisingly strong advisor on during, during the whole journey, which is…

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