How do you approach organizational governance and alignment within a high-stakes research institution?
Replied bySam Altman
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $2 Billion/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
You need high alignment on foundational mission combined with extreme operational autonomy for small, elite technical teams. Overly bureaucratic hierarchies suffocate scientific risk-taking; our role as executives is to clear roadblocks, allocate compute resources decisively, and maintain cultural urgency.
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