Jessica Karl, Columnist

OpenAI Is Now Open to Making Sam Altman Very Wealthy

As the company converts to for-profit status, its founder and CEO stands to gains an equity stake worth billions.

Peace, love and shareholder maximization.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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As much as I would love to spend the next 500 words trying to guess Eric Adams’ cellphone password — my money is on I<3TURKEY — we have bigger fish to fry! Like Sam Altman’s sudden desire to change OpenAI’s corporate structure and the subsequent conga line of employees1 heading for the exits: