Nilay Patel

It became a whole thing.

Gets reinstated as CEO.

We learned a bunch about what happened in the midst of this.

What jumped out to you as somebody who covered this in real time particularly aggressively?

Was there new stuff that really jumped out to you?

Yeah.

Shout out to Ashley Vance, now at Core Memory, who shows up in one of the messages.

Yeah.

I do think the back and forths between Mira and Sam as all of this is going on are maybe the best thing that came out and have led to some really delightful memes.

There is, to your point about Mike Isaac, who wrote a story concurrently as all this was happening, saying that Mira Marotti was one of the people intimately involved with ousting Sam in the first place.

Got a lot of criticism for that piece, a lot of people who said that wasn't the case.

Turns out it functionally was the case.

And all

On the stand, she said over and over, essentially, like, no, I didn't trust him.

No, when he came back, I still didn't trust him.

And that's like, that's under oath, what she said.

And meanwhile, as all of this is going on, she seems to be the person Sam is most consistently messaging, trying to get information about what is going on.

Because as we know, he basically, like, a lot of this comes up in that New Yorker piece you're talking about.

He just, like, holed up with a couple of his confidants and lawyers and desperately tried to figure out what was going on.

Like spent a weekend basically frantically calling and texting everyone.