Ronan Farrow

And there's people in this piece that say he was lying too much for any executive.

And there's people in this piece who say he was lying too much, especially in this context where that can become dangerous.

And the story of what happened after is the story of that wider race to the bottom.

This is really a situation where capitalism won out.

Sam Altman went into a war room, and we document how he fanned out to all these powerful allies.

in the investment community who in turn were connected to heavy hitters in politics.

You know, one of his main defenders is this Silicon Valley Democratic investor Ron Conway.

He was at lunch with Nancy Pelosi when he got the text from Sam saying, like, I've been fired.

We've all got to go to war.

And a bunch of those people did go to war.

And in fairness to all of those people, the board that fired Sam Altman did not communicate what was happening.

They got bad legal advice.

They stayed quiet.

Right now is kind of the first time we're seeing all of the details of what they were really alleging and why he was fired.

But in that void, Sam Altman was able to make the case, look, the numbers don't lie.

I'm the key to the growth of this company.

It's going to fall apart without me.

And he came back.

And I document parts of that comeback that are still raising real questions.

There was an outside law firm investigation that was kept entirely out of writing.