https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...
Getting his way: The Wall Street Journal article. They said he usually got his way, but that he was so skillful at it that they were hard-pressed to explain exactly how he managed to pull it off.
https://archive.is/20231122033417/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...
Bottom line he had a lot more power over the board then than he will now.