Comment by nickfromseattle

> If they're not training foundation models any more, the talents of people like Noam Shazeer aren't so important to them.

Why is the CEO important to model development regardless of talents? They've raised $150m+, have $15m+ ARR and ~200 employees, etc. Shouldn't the CEO be CEOing?

Edit: reading the comments below, it seems like maybe he thought the expected value of attempting to clear the hurdle of their valuation/liquidation preferences at a $250k/year salary as CEO was lower than a $5m+/year salary/RSUs from Google?