Comment by Philpax
22 days ago
The board did not plan or execute their ouster well, which forced Murati and Sutskever to coup their coup to maintain the stability of the company. The board and Sutskever were expecting the general support of the company, so they had no real backup plan or evidence ready that they could publicly release.
Why couldn’t they release the evidence? At least some of it is here in the article, and it’s damaging to Sam but not particularly damaging to the company. If Murati demanded they release the evidence, why refuse?
Murati didn't demand they release the evidence, as far as I could tell. The board are describing as not wanting to throw Murati under the bus by stating the evidence came from her, which makes sense if their goal was to install her as the new CEO.
> [Murati] and the rest of the executive team gave the board a 30-minute deadline to explain why they fired Altman or resign—or else the executive team would quit en masse.
> The board felt they couldn’t divulge that it had been Murati who had given them some of the most detailed evidence of Altman’s management failings.
Unclear whether she wanted it released internally or publicly, but this sounds like a demand to me.
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