The one thing Altman did wrong imo is seemingly tried to become the "technical face" of the company. He was trying to be somewhat like Musk, but he is clearly not that at OpenAI. For example, why was he at Cambridge talking to academics by himself? He should have used this as an opportunity to put some of the leading researchers in the spotlight.
>>garden+8A
It is subtle and I could easily be misreading things, but my sense is his ego started to get in the way a little, perhaps despite his own intentions