A recent excerpt from ‘The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future’ unveils details surrounding the brief firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2023. The book, authored by Keach Hagey, indicates that board members were alarmed by Altman's ownership of the OpenAI Startup Fund and alleged misconduct. Evidence compiled by Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati, including claims of misleading statements regarding GPT-4 Turbo, led to Altman's ousting. However, employee backlash prompted his swift return, while Sutskever and Murati exited to start their own ventures.