Mira Murati left OpenAI September 2024.
$2B raised by July. $12B valuation.
November: negotiating at $50B.
She brought John Schulman. Barret Zoph. Luke Metz. (The researchers who built GPT-4.)
You take the people who built the system.
You took the system.
Bill Walsh invented the West Coast offense in 1979.
Mike Holmgren learned it, Super Bowl XXXI.
Andy Reid learned from Holmgren, refined 25 years.
Doug Pederson learned from Reid, Super Bowl LII.
Four generations. 400 pages of route combinations that still win.
PayPal Mafia: Musk, Thiel, Hoffman, Levchin.
Dario Amodei left OpenAI with the safety team, built Anthropic—$60B.
Ilya Sutskever raised $1B in four months on “building safe AGI” and a roster.
Reid’s tree isn’t vibes.
Quarterback progressions against Cover 2. Blocking schemes. Play-action timing. Five years to install correctly.
That knowledge: Super Bowl ring, $40M contract.
OpenAI diaspora: Anthropic ($60B). Safe Superintelligence ($1B). Thinking Machines Lab ($50B negotiating). Cohere ($5B). Adept (Amazon). $115B combined, five years.
Same researchers, same architecture, same RLHF approach.
Mistral AI: France’s DeepMind/Meta cohort. $6B, 18 months.
Built Mistral 7B in four weeks because they’d built it before.
Somewhere else.
Then took what they knew
And built it again.
Belichick: six rings.
Brian Daboll learned it, Coach of the Year.
Mike Vrabel learned it, AFC Championship.
Defensive disguises, fourth-down analytics, roster construction philosophy.
The pathway: install offense three years → head coaching interviews. Run top-five defense → $6M offers. NFL’s 32 teams, ~180 assistant coaches—coordinators, position coaches.
Master the system, prove installation, get promoted. League’s 70% Black player base feeds the pipeline.
Walsh’s offense still runs KC, Philly, SF. Reid → Pederson →Steichen → Colts.
Knowledge compounds because infrastructure—plays, teaching methods—transfers intact.
Tech compounds faster.
Anthropic: December 2021 launch, Claude vs GPT-4 by 2023, $60B by 2025.
Fork advantage: skip dead-ends, know failed architectures, start year six with five years’ knowledge.
Coordinators become head coaches. Position coaches become coordinators. Expertise converts to opportunity.
There are only 3 Black head coaches in the NFL.
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