> The moves follow an April article in The Wall Street Journal that detailed Altman’s efforts to have OpenAI back companies he personally invested in.

Sounds a bit like Wework.

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bombcar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair, a big part of being in Y Combinator itself is being "heavily encouraged" to use products from other Y Combinators. You just have to do it openly.

	▲	graemep 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Networking and relationship building is fine. its when it goes beyond that, and in particular when there are conflicts of interest, it becomes a problem. Altman seems to have had similar issues when he was at YC: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may... Doing business with companies connected to the CEO often creates a conflict of interest. it could all be OK, of course, but OpenAI investing in companies that Altman has already invested in does not look great and needs to be investigated.

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baggachipz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Everything about OpenAI sounds like WeWork. Can't wait to see that S1, I'll need a truckload of popcorn.