From 'kind of lost' to OpenAI pretraining team: the Coxon story
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-19
NathanpmYoung shares backstory on Coxon: in 2022 he seemed clever but "kind of lost," maybe heading into trading. They last crossed paths in Berkeley about three years ago.
Coxon later joined OpenAI's pretraining team and, per the post, made loads of money — a snapshot of how AI-industry talent trajectories can flip from aimless to core-team wealth in a few years.
Related event: Acquaintance Recalls Coxon as an Aimless Trader Back in 2022(3 posts)→
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