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Nonprofit Boards Hold Unchecked Power

The structural flaw exposed by the board crisis is that, unlike typical corporate boards answerable to shareholders, the board of a nonprofit has very large power and answers to no one but themselves unless other rules are put in place, whereas what OpenAI really wants is for its board to answer to the world as a whole.

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Sam Altman

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in most corporate structures, boards are usually answerable to shareholders... the board of a nonprofit has, unless you put other rules in place, quite a lot of power. They don’t really answer to anyone but themselves.

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Sam Altman #2Lex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:04 AM

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