Ilya Sutskever's 2015 texts to Greg Brockman surface: early OpenAI was "a relaxed environment"
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-09
TechEmails shared a November 21, 2015 text from Ilya Sutskever to Greg Brockman, prompting nostalgia about early OpenAI culture. The reposter quips that the hardest person in tech ran "a relaxed environment," while some founder building a document editor now brags "we are intense, we don't smile, and we do 996."
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