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overfeed • yesterday at 11:19 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> 3. They say he was an "engineer" who'd been there ~15 months. If you're an actual engineer at OAI and past the 1 year cliff, you're probably already sitting on RSUs likely to be worth at least $1M after OAI's IPO - and maybe much more.

They may have been thinking they could make >$5-10M on trading options on insider knowledge on upcoming OpenAI deals (or ending thereoff)

> That's a lot of incentive to not get fired and probably makes you pretty hard to recruit as an internal mole for cash.

Most criminals assume they won't get caught.