Musk's Rainforest Analogy
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A story about how Elon Musk used an analogy to criticize OpenAI's transformation from nonprofit to for-profit company.
"It's like if I donated to a nonprofit charity that said we're going to save the Amazon rainforest, and then that charity took all our money and created a for-profit logging company that was just cutting down trees in the rainforest and selling the lumber. That's what's happened - that is OpenAI."
The analogy was used to illustrate how OpenAI went from being a nonprofit organization funded by donations (including $44 million from Musk) to becoming a for-profit company largely owned by Microsoft.
Shaan Puri
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Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.