Elon Musk & Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·18 FEB 2016
When A Rival Leaps Ahead, Change Your Cadence
A single alarming data point should reset how often your leadership team talks, not just what they talk about.
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Greg Brockman
OpenAI·Stripe
2015–present
Co-founder and president of OpenAI and former CTO of Stripe. The Musk v. Altman exhibits include his correspondence on OpenAI's founding, structure, and compute strategy.
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Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·12 JUL 2017
Turn A Research Problem Into A Capital Problem
When you can't invent the answer, buy the conditions under which the answer becomes findable.
Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·13 SEP 2017
How to Split Control When Everyone Brings Something Different
In a founding negotiation, spelling out who decides what — in writing — is more valuable than any equity number.
Elon Musk & Andrej Karpathy ·OpenAI ·1 FEB 2018
Open Research Without Scale Feeds Your Competitor
If you can't match a giant's scale, publishing your best ideas is a subsidy to them, not a strategy against them.
Elon Musk & Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·13 SEP 2017
Design Board Math Before You Need It
Control isn't a feeling — it's a seat count, and smart founders draw the arithmetic before the fight, not during it.
Elon Musk & Greg Brockman & Ilya Sutskever & Jared Birchall ·OpenAI ·21 JUL 2017
Plan the Exit Before You Need It: Staging a Mission
The most important strategic decision isn't where you start — it's knowing which structure you'll need next, and when to trigger the shift.
Elon Musk & Andrej Karpathy ·OpenAI ·1 FEB 2018
If You Can't Win Open, Find a Cash Cow
Open research without a profit engine isn't idealism — it's free R&D for whoever has the bigger bank account.
Elon Musk ·OpenAI ·28 JUN 2017
How to Turn a Partner's Asset Into Your Competitive Weapon
The fastest way to build a moat is to make someone else's resources do the work — before your rivals think to ask.
Elon Musk & Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·20 SEP 2017
When Funding Becomes Leverage, Trust Becomes the Real Asset
The moment your funder's leverage looks like a path to absolute control, your co-founders stop building and start negotiating their exit.
Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·12 JUL 2017
Compute Is the Constraint, Not Cleverness
If the bottleneck is hardware, the winner is whoever buys the most of it first.
Greg Brockman ·OpenAI ·31 JAN 2018
Turn Your Mission Into A Moat
When you can't outspend competitors, out-trust them — moral high ground is a strategic asset, not a slogan.