This has been a source of tension at least since the release of ChatGPT, so… yeah it’s not like the problem came out of nowhere. The governance structure itself is indicative of quite elaborate attempts to reconcile it.

I don’t know about that. Yes, there was tension built into the structure, something happened to trigger this. You don’t fire your CEO without a backup plan if this was an on going conflict. And if your backup plan is to keep the current president (who was the chair of the board until you removed him), that’s not a backup plan.

Everything points to this being a haphazard change that’s clumsy at best.

The question was “did they try to find compromise” not “was the firing haphazard.” The answer is definitely yes to the former.

The vote for firing him effectively took place on Thursday at the latest, given that Murati was informed about it that evening.

you can interpret it exactly opposite: they tried to negotiate and he lied .

You are assuming there was absolutely no build up to the firing. Just because the disagreements weren’t public doesn’t mean they weren’t happening.