The four OpenAI board members who fired Sam Altman concluded they could not believe what he was telling them after years of misrepresentation.

A majority of sources interviewed found they couldn't rely on any baseline of truth from Sam Altman, even on small, unnecessary deceptions.

Ilya Sutskever wrote a memo accusing Sam Altman of a consistent pattern of lying and pitting executives against each other.

Sam Altman casts a negative light on OpenAI through dubious actions like silencing whistleblowers or wrestling back control after his board tried to kick him out.

Sam Altman did not inform the OpenAI board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, despite claiming to be an independent board member.

OpenAI has significant reputational damage amongst effectively all of its stakeholders.