@rohanpaul_ai: Fortune published a piece on the an unusual management system OpenAI has built to preserve startup-like speed OpenAI us…
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Fortune reports on OpenAI's unusual management system, including a 'friction@' inbox used as an escalation path to maintain startup-like speed, with involvement from Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
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Fortune published a piece on the an unusual management system OpenAI has built to preserve startup-like speed
OpenAI uses a “friction@” inbox as an internal escalation path that can override planned work.
employees flag technical, process, and office bottlenecks there, with Sam Altman or Greg Brockman sometimes intervening on selected cases.
Fidji Simo formalized the process after joining OpenAI, pairing the inbox with monthly Slack updates so employees could track whether reported frictions were resolved.
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