Elon Emails

Brockman's New Year note: 'It's an honor to work alongside you'

From:
Greg Brockman
Date:
January 1, 2018
To:
Elon Musk; bcc Ilya Sutskever
Subject:
thank you
Hi Elon, We've been working together for 2 years now, and in every meeting with you I continue to learn, grow, and see the world in a new way. I particularly admire your clarity of purpose, the simple and consistent heuristics you use to evaluate decisions, and that you stick to what's right rather than what's easy. I am grateful and humbled that you see potential in Ilya and me and are willing to give us a chance. 2017 was a hard year, and we've made mistakes, but I believe the lessons we've learned will ultimately make us successful in our mission. It's an honor to work alongside you. Let's make sure that the post-AGI world is one that is good for humans. - gdb

About this email

On New Year's Day 2018, Brockman thanks Musk for two years of working together, praises his clarity of purpose, and says he is grateful Musk is willing to give him and Sutskever a chance after a hard 2017.

Notes

Text taken from the PDF text layer of the court exhibit as filed on the Musk v. Altman docket (N.D. Cal. 4:24-cv-04722), via CourtListener/RECAP. Header timestamp 1/1/2018 7:56:57 AM. Offered by Musk's side as evidence of the relationship weeks before he left the board. No reply from Musk is in the exhibit.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: gratitude, new-year, relationship, agi, musk-v-openai