Several Silicon Valley investors believed Sam Altman's loyalties were divided, as he was known to make personal investments selectively into the best companies, blocking outside investors.

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

Elon Musk is alleging in an ongoing lawsuit that Sam Altman lied to him and other co-founders and investors, and unjustly enriched himself.

In 2018, Dario Amodei wrote that 'everything was a rotating set of schemes to raise money' in reference to Sam Altman and other OpenAI founders.

Elon Musk had a falling out with Sam Altman because Musk felt Altman had abandoned OpenAI's altruistic goals for profit.

Sam Altman has indirect equity in OpenAI through the YC fund, which is Y Combinator.