SHOTS FIRED!! OPEN AI Explodes

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
9-1-1, what's the state of your emergency? Hey, the tech industry got flipped upside down over the weekend. I was staring at my phone the whole time. I haven't been so invigorated by any story in like five years.
My wife might divorce me because I haven't looked up from my phone. I've just been on Twitter all weekend. Sam, how are you doing right now with this OpenAI story?

**Sam Parr** (0:20)
It's been awesome.
The real winner through all this is Twitter. Twitter's been great for this, right? Twitter just thrives through all types of controversy.

**Shaan Puri** (0:28)
Twitter, AKA the Silicon Valley Group Chat, has been awesome. Awesome all weekend.

**Sam Parr** (0:34)
It's been awesome.

**Shaan Puri** (0:44)
I thought there was a chance that you were just like out duck hunting and I would come on today and you'd be like, what happened? So, you know, I thought there was a small chance.

**Sam Parr** (0:52)
I'm a Sam Altman fan. I've loved this guy. We've talked about him for years. I'm a big fan of his. This is an I love drama. I love gossip. I read TMZ every day. And so now I've got TMZ on Twitter. It's awesome. Of course, we're talking about OpenAI and Sam Altman getting fired on. We're recording this Monday. He was fired like Friday, but there's like news happening in real time, like constantly, right?

**Shaan Puri** (1:13)
Exactly. Like just as of an hour ago, there's news. So we don't know exactly where this is going to all land. We're going to try to get this out as soon as we can.
We had a whole other episode planned today. We canceled it. We just said, let's do this right now. What's our reaction?
What is our reaction to the OpenAI stuff that's going on? All right, Sam, where do you want to start? I think we should take this character by character, go through all the players that were involved. And I think we should give them kind of a grade and they can get it, you know, if they get an A or an A plus, that means they came out a big winner here.
You can get a C, you can get an F. I think we should grade all the players of how this has turned out for them in the, you know, 48 hours so far that this happened. But do you want to first give a little timeline summary recap?

**Sam Parr** (2:00)
Yeah, so I think you should do it because you've been paying attention to it more closely, but it all started Friday at like what, three o'clock?

**Shaan Puri** (2:06)
Exactly, Friday afternoon.
There's, I get a text message from Ben Levy. He just says, wow, Sam Altman, what the fuck?
Holy shit.
What?
And he doesn't say the news yet, and then I'm like, what? And then he's like, Sam Altman, out. But he like misspells out, then he like, does the stars not out? Out of what? Where's he out of? It was unfathomable that Sam Altman would get fired, right? Like, and the same way that, you know, I would don't expect to wake up and see that Elon Musk has been fired from Tesla. You don't think, you don't wake up and think that Sam Altman's gonna get fired from OpenAI, which is the hottest private company, probably the most important startup in the world that has gone from zero to 90 billion in valuation in just a couple of years here. Hey guys, quick break, because you know when you're at dinner and somebody just says, hey guys, I got the bill, it's on me. Well, that's HubSpot right now with this episode for you. They pay the bills and that's why I need to tell you that you know it and we know it. The next year is creeping right up quick. And if you want to win inside your niche in 2024, you need tech that puts you in the pilot seat. So you can collaborate on every inch of the customer journey inside HubSpot's new sales hub. With a comprehensive prospecting workspace and powerful sales analytics tools, your data is connected across teams so that your leads never slip through the cracks. HubSpot's sales hub will let you accelerate every facet of your sales operation with precision. And with over 1,400 integration, there are tons of ways to mix in new features. So finish out Q4 strong and gear up for the new year with HubSpot's sales hub. Learn more at hubspot.com/sales. All right, let's get back to the pod.

**Sam Parr** (3:38)
Yeah, it was shocking. It started because OpenAI, I don't even know, our guy put this in military time. So what's this, 248 At 248, OpenAI announced a leadership transition. They said that Sam Altman is departing as CEO because he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board.