OpenAI whistleblower Jacob Coxon pledges to donate his ~$30M equity at IPO, calls it "blood money"
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-11-15
OpenAI whistleblower Jacob Coxon, responding on X, pledged to donate 100% of his OpenAI equity to charity once the company IPOs — an estimated $30 million — calling the shares "blood money." Notable for someone inside the company to describe their own equity as dirty money.
His own follow-up reads cynical though: "In all the good worlds the stock goes to zero anyway. But sure, you can count this as a pledge" — implying the pledge costs him little in his own view of the company's future.
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