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OpenAI Uses Secondary Sale to Retain Top Talent Amid AI War
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OpenAI’s share sale doubles as a retention mechanism amid aggressive talent poaching from competitors.
OpenAI’s $6.6B secondary stock sale serves partly as a retention tool in the fierce AI talent battle. Rivals like Meta have offered $100M signing bonuses to poach researchers, yet many OpenAI employees opted to hold rather than sell the full allocation. This selective liquidity bolsters internal loyalty while signaling confidence in the company’s long-term trajectory.