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- Sam Altman has a hot take on his brief ouster as OpenAI's CEO.
- "I learned that the company can truly function without me," Altman told The Verge's Alex Heath.
- Altman told Heath that this meant he's either "picked great leaders" or "mentored them well."
Sam Altman, the briefly fired and quickly rehired CEO of OpenAI, has a hot take about his short stint away from the company.
Speaking to The Verge's Alex Heath, Altman said he was happy to be back — and that the firing, and how OpenAI functioned in his absence, wasn't too bad after all.
"I learned that the company can truly function without me, and that's a very nice thing," Altman told Heath in a phone call on Wednesday.