In tech’s hardcore era, some execs are facing an obstacle they can’t outsmart: the limits of their own bodies.
On Monday, Lilian Weng, the cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, became at least the fourth high-profile figure at tech’s cutting edge to cite the state of her health in her resignation announcement. (More later on the career change that became public shortly thereafter.)
Before Weng, Fidji Simo, the CEO of AGI at OpenAI, the xAI cofounder Greg Yang, and Tom Siebel, the CEO of C3 AI, all stepped down from their roles, saying they were too sick to work at the level of intensity they expected from themselves.
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