Come on, he definitely has more money than he needs given his past employers. For someone with his creative output, he probably just enjoys having an environment to build and explore.

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moralestapia 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Your argument contradicts itself.

If money was not an issue he could just build that environment for himself.

	▲	whiplash451 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can’t build “working with amazing people”. At least not in a short amount of time. I bet that this was a significant part of the decision for Andrej.
	▲	skeledrew 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The overhead of maintaining and running things isn't interesting to most creative folk. They'd rather others deal with the minutiae (managing a company, etc) so they can focus on their thing.
	▲	0123456789ABCDE 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		i can play by myself, or i can join some friends, and make the play more joyful
	▲	HDThoreaun 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		No, money is not the only barrier to building things. I think karoathy could build his own lab if he wanted, but it would be years of doing things he doesn’t want. Why waste time running a business when he’d rather be researching?
	▲	CooCooCaCha 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do you have any idea how much it costs to build a frontier model and how much money it takes to enable R&D at the cutting edge?