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In 2017, Sam Altman personally paid Greg Brockman with ~$10 million in equity off the books from his personal family office. Brockman hid it from Musk. Musk's family office head Jared Birchall discovered it and wrote to Musk on August 18, 2017: >"He compensated Greg on the side... a percentage ownership of the LLC that holds the assets of Sam's personal family office, worth $10 million." >"Naturally, Greg is going to have greater allegiance towards Sam as a result of this arrangement." Musk forwarded the email to Brockman with: "??" Brockman didn't respond. Brockman confirmed it under oath today: Q: Elon Musk didn't know about this. Right? Brockman: "He certainly didn't know about it." Q: "You thought it was fair to have a side deal with Sam Altman that you concealed from your cofounder, Elon Musk?" Brockman: "We had never discussed compensation directly." Q: Don't you think it would be material to disclose that someone you were in business with had a specific loyalty to someone else compensating him? Brockman's defense: "Elon's time was relatively hard to get." Two years before Altman offered Musk equity publicly, he had already bought Brockman's loyalty secretly. The price was $10 million in equity on the side while OpenAI was a charity. Hidden from co-founder Musk who was funding it.
