That’s kind of a shitty way to put it. Mira wasn’t a PM at OpenAI. She was CTO and before that VP of Engineering. Prior to OpenAI she was an engineer at Tesla on the Model X and Leap Motion. You’re right that she’s not a published ML researcher like Ilya, but "right place, right time" undersells leading the team that shipped ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4.

“CTO” during ZIRP means nothing to be fair. You could put a monkey in front of a typewriter in that environment and still get a 50% chance of success, by the success metric of the time which was just “engagement” instead of profits. If you’re playing with infinite money it’s hard to lose.