[philsquared_]

Justified or not doesn't really matter. If your entire company threatens to quit then you made the wrong choice. Hopefully many of the old board is gone because a blunder of that magnitude shows extreme disconnect.

[Gimpei]

Sounds more to me like they were naive when it came to the inevitable PR war that would follow. They should have come out guns blazing with all the dirt they had. Instead they said very little and it just appeared nonsensical.

[preommr]

Except that I don't think it was for PR reasons that almost the entire company sided with Altman. I'd say it has much more to do with the profitability and the goal of continuing to work on interesting problems with the best resources.

[croes]

If you threaten to quit to protect a liar then you made the wrong choice.

[jojobas]

If enough people make the wrong choice they may well come out on top, at least temporarily.

[dekhn]

I suppose that depends on one's global utility function.

[philsquared_]

Better to have a company than not have one right?

[Hizonner]

They made the right choice by firing him, and the wrong choice by reinstating him. If firing him had blown up OpenAI, that would have been better than leaving him in charge.