Andrew Marantz
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first heard Apr 2026
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So I think there are things here that put to rest some of the longstanding rumors, right?
I mean...
Altman has always said, and Paul Graham at Y Combinator has always said, he was not pushed out.
He left of his own volition.
It really seems from our reporting that that was not the case.
They have talked a lot about their fundraising in the Gulf, in the Middle East, as innocuous.
All businesses do this.
It really seems from our reporting that the relationships that Sam has cultivated with some Emirati and Saudi royals is deeper than was previously realized.
Ronan, what am I missing?
There are several things like this.
The thing that you point out about people changing their tune over time
I think is an integral part of what we document in the piece, which is the fact that Sam Altman comes up through this Y Combinator world is not incidental.
The fact that he has an investment portfolio in, by his own estimation, about 400 other tech companies.
The fact that he has sat on everyone's board and everyone has sat on his board.
I think our sort of line about this in the piece is like, we spoke to people who are Sam's friends, Sam's enemies, and given the mercenary nature of Silicon Valley, some people who have been both, right?
So given that that's the landscape, you are going to have people who change their tune as the wind blows different ways.
And that's a lot of how Altman's been able to weather a lot of this stuff in the past.
No, no.
There were legit defenders of Sam on a number of these fronts who we talked to for sure.
I think a lot of this has to do with like, what baseline expectation are you starting from?
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