{"id":943513,"date":"2025-07-03T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943513"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:38:51","slug":"how-openai-ceo-sam-altman-went-from-calling-mark-zuckerbergs-hiring-exceptional-to-slamming-it-as-distasteful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/how-openai-ceo-sam-altman-went-from-calling-mark-zuckerbergs-hiring-exceptional-to-slamming-it-as-distasteful\/","title":{"rendered":"How OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went from calling Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s hiring &#8220;Exceptional&#8221; to slamming it as &#8220;Distasteful&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now blasting Meta&#8217;s aggressive talent poaching and $100 million signing bonuses, a dramatic reversal from 2016 when he praised Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s hiring approach as &#8220;exceptional&#8221; during a YCombinator interview.<\/p>\n<p>The irony runs deep: Altman, who was then the President of YCombinator, told Zuckerberg that &#8220;Facebook has done exceptionally well is hiring&#8221; and called it &#8220;the thing you have to get good at&#8221; as a founder. Today, he&#8217;s warning OpenAI employees that Meta is &#8220;acting in a way that feels somewhat distasteful&#8221; as the company raids his AI talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now blasting Meta&#8217;s aggressive talent poaching and $100 million signing bonuses, a dramatic reversal from 2016 when he praised Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s hiring approach as &#8220;exceptional&#8221; during a YCombinator interview. The irony runs deep: Altman, who was then the President of YCombinator, told Zuckerberg that &#8220;Facebook has done exceptionally well is hiring&#8221; and called it &#8220;the thing you have to get good at&#8221; as a founder. Today, he&#8217;s warning OpenAI employees that Meta is &#8220;acting in a way that feels somewhat distasteful&#8221; as the company raids his AI talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}