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alwillislast Tuesday at 3:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

He left in 2019 and formed his own company, that did design work for Apple until 2022.

He "took" several Apple employees with him when he left and there's been a steady stream of Apple employees going to OpenAI.

Ive isn’t responsible for all of them obviously, but the articles about lawsuits says there are 400 former Apple employees at OpenAI.


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SoftTalkerlast Tuesday at 3:45 PM

Sounds like Apple needs to do a better job at being a place where employees want to stay.

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MBCooklast Tuesday at 5:20 PM

A lot more than several. Sounded like it ended up being a large chunk of his team.