Sam Altman stood on a stage in Seoul last month and smiled for cameras. Back in San Francisco, his finance team was quietly hiring the people you bring on when you're about to go public: a chief accounting officer named Ajmere Dale, a corporate business finance officer named Cynthia Gaylor, someone to run investor relations. The photo ops were for the press. The hires were for Wall Street.

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Marcus Schuler

Marcus Schuler

San Francisco

Tech translator with German roots who fled to Silicon Valley chaos. Decodes startup noise from San Francisco. Launched implicator.ai to slice through AI's daily madness—crisp, clear, with Teutonic precision and sarcasm. E-Mail: [email protected]