OpenAI has tripled in size in just a year (growing from 1,000 to 3,000 employees), and it shows. A former employee recently revealed an internal culture of overlapping projects, bottom-up chaos, and secretive teams.
Today, Chris and Yaniv compare OpenAI’s culture to early Google, Facebook, and Uber, discussing the trade-offs between speed and structure in hypergrowth startups. For founders, this is a rare look into how world-changing companies operate, and key insight into what you should (and shouldn’t) replicate.
In this clip:
* Why OpenAI’s bottom-up culture produces both innovation and product confusion
* The trade-off between speed, structure, and scaling fast
* How secrecy impacts team collaboration in hypergrowth companies
* Lessons founders can apply when scaling their own startups
Clip from Reacts episode 'Uber's New Response to Waymo + ChatGPT’s New Super Agent & OpenAI’s Chaotic Company Culture': https://youtu.be/Z36vYmpdfYk
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