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.

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.

Almost all original OpenAI team members, including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Ilia Sutskever, and Mira Murati, left after clashing with Sam Altman.

Sam Altman was reinstalled as OpenAI CEO and allowed to choose the new board after leveraging the loyalty of other Silicon Valley figures like the CEO of Microsoft and the founder of Airbnb.