In response to concerns raised concerning OpenAI's safety culture and its treatment of leaving employees' ownership, CEO Sam Altman stated that the business has never reclaimed vested equity from an employee who did not sign a separation agreement.
Last week, Vox published an article on the ChatGPT-maker's "extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement" that warned employees that they would lose all of their vested stock unless they agreed to certain nondisclosure and non-disparagement terms.
Altman acknowledged the existence of a provision regarding the possible cancellation of stock, but clarified that the business had never recouped anyone's vested ownership and that this was being addressed in the exit documentation.
“This is on me and one of the few times I’ve been genuinely embarrassed running Openai; I did not know this was happening and I should have,” Altman posted on X on Sunday, asking former employees to reach out to him regarding this.
“Very sorry about this,” he posted.
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