Ilia Sutskever and Greg Brockman initially chose Elon Musk to be the CEO of OpenAI's for-profit entity.

“This claim is contradicted by public statements and reporting on OpenAI's history. In early 2018, while OpenAI was still a non-profit, Elon Musk proposed that he should take control of the organization to compete with Google. According to a blog post by OpenAI's founders, including Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, they and Musk discussed a for-profit structure, but could not agree on terms because Musk "wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO." The other founders felt giving any one person absolute control was against the mission, so they rejected his proposal. Musk subsequently left OpenAI in February 2018. The for-profit entity, OpenAI LP, was not created until 2019, with Sam Altman as CEO. Context: The claim reverses the actual events. Elon Musk sought to become the leader of a proposed for-profit version of OpenAI, but his bid was rejected by the other co-founders, including Sutskever and Brockman. This disagreement led to Musk's departure from the organization a year before the for-profit entity was officially formed.”