Business Law
May 5, 2026
Musk lawyer presses co-founder on billions in OpenAI trial
Monday's cross-examination of OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman centered on his profit motives, drawing from internal writings.
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman kept a journal from the company's early years, something the plaintiffs made liberal use of when he took the stand Monday in Oakland in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company over its conversion to a for-profit structure.
In one 2017 entry, written during discussions about the possibility of creating a for-profit subsidiary, Brockman asked, "Financially, what will take me to $1 billion?" What he meant by that, Brockm...
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