{"id":178282,"date":"2023-12-14T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/theres-a-secret-whatsapp-group-chat-with-more-than-100-silicon-valley-ceos-in-it-and-even-they-didnt-know-what-sam-altman-did-to-get-fired"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:28:09","slug":"theres-a-secret-whatsapp-group-chat-with-more-than-100-silicon-valley-ceos-in-it-and-even-they-didnt-know-what-sam-altman-did-to-get-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/theres-a-secret-whatsapp-group-chat-with-more-than-100-silicon-valley-ceos-in-it-and-even-they-didnt-know-what-sam-altman-did-to-get-fired","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a secret WhatsApp group chat with more than 100 Silicon Valley CEOs in it and even they didn\u2019t know what Sam Altman did to get fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-secret-whatsapp-group-chat-with-more-than-100-silicon-valley-ceos-in-it-and-even-they-didnt-know-what-sam-altman-did-to-get-fired.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that billionaire tech moguls aren\u2019t that different from regular people when it comes to industry gossip.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But no one seemed to know the real reason behind Altman\u2019s firing. The Times reported that a flurry of messages ensued, including speculation about what Altman might have done to get the chop.<\/p>\n<p>The WhatsApp group includes big names like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dropbox chief Drew Houston, per The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Altman\u2019s abrupt ouster saw the appointment of <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meet-mira-murati-openai-new-interim-ceo-2023-11\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\"> two interim<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/emmett-shear-openai-ceo-artificial-intelligence-destroy-all-life-chatgpt-2023-11\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\"> CEOs<\/a> before he was <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sam-altman-return-openai-ceo-2023-11\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\"> reinstated just days later<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that billionaire tech moguls aren\u2019t that different from regular people when it comes to industry gossip. But no one seemed to know the real reason behind Altman\u2019s firing. The Times reported that a flurry of messages ensued, including speculation about what Altman might have done to get the chop. The WhatsApp group [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}