Emmett Shear: Emmett Shear, a co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, has been appointed by the OpenAI board to serve as the company’s new acting CEO. The action was taken in response to demands for Sam Altman’s return as the company’s CEO from investors including Microsoft, Thrive Capital, and Global Management.
Who is Emmett Shear?
Shear, a Yale alum, gained popularity in 2011 when he co-founded the live-streaming platform Twitch. After the birth of his child earlier this year, he left the platform owned by Amazon.com Inc.
He was connected to Y Combinator, a business that helps startups launch and get capital, before joining Twitch. Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb are just a few of the businesses it helped start.
Emmet’s Tweet
Shear’s three-point plan for the next 30 days as the CEO
- Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report.
- Continue to speak to as many of our employees, partners, investors, and customers as possible, take good notes, and share the key takeaways.
- Reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers.
He also wrote, “I am posting this here both because I think it’s in the general public interest to know in this case, but please don’t expect all future internal comms to come through a public channel.”
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