Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, November 20th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, there's really only one story.

The whole Sam Altman got fired by Open Aye's board but then they tried

to get him back but then Microsoft hired him and now Open Aye employees are threatening to quit

on mass story. But also the CEO of Cruz has stepped down and Linda Yacharino's friends are suggesting

she should step down as CEO of X. Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

All right, let's do this. I know you all have been waiting with bated breath, so here is the whole Sam Altman saga as of the time of this recording. Late Friday afternoon last week word came down that Sam

Altman had been fired by Open AI's Board of Directors because a review by the

board found he wasn't quote consistently candid in his communications with the board and

quote obviously a Friday news dump firing the very prominent head of the biggest

startup in all the land is mega news.

Lots of you were tweeting at me for an emergency

podcast episode about this, but I'm glad we didn't try for one.

Because what does that quote sound like to you?

It sounded like initially the board had uncovered Sam doing something bad,

either in a business sense or a personal sense,

and it would have to be pretty bad for something like this

to happen so suddenly, right?

Where it was that Microsoft only learned of the firing one minute

before it was announced.

It's a good thing that we waited because over the ensuing hours,

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