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alpinismelast Monday at 10:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

“Controls”

That will be especially untrue after IPO when shareholders can claim there are fiduciary responsibilities that conflict with the non profit goals.


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JumpCrisscrosslast Monday at 11:01 PM

> when shareholders can claim there are fiduciary responsibilities that conflict with the non profit goals

The for-profit has fiduciary responsibility to the non-profit as well as other shareholders. The IPO doesn't really change that.

alextheparrotlast Monday at 11:33 PM

The for-profit is a PBC with the sane mission at the nonprofit [0]

[0] https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/

super256last Monday at 10:51 PM

The non profit is a big shareholder of the commercial subsidiary