[FireBeyond]

Because PG is being very selective.

Does he forget that it is known that Sam posted to YC's site that he was now Chairman in the day or so prior to him leaving? So... what... they asked him to choose, he decided to promote himself and make a post about it, and then they hurriedly deleted that post and then Same "chose" to leave YC?

[burnished]

Or someone had some copy prepared (you don't think everyone waits until afterwards to write anything do you?) and whoopsied the publish button?

This line of thinking just reads as sensationalist or needlessly conspiratorial given that the indictment it is trying to support is so weak.

[FireBeyond]

Except PG confirmed it:

> Graham said it was his wife’s doing. “If anyone ‘fired’ Sam, it was Jessica, not me”, he said. “But it would be wrong to use the word ‘fired’ because he agreed immediately.” Jessica Livingston said her husband was correct.…To smooth his exit, Altman proposed he move from president to chairman. He pre-emptively published a blog post on the firm’s website announcing the change. But the firm’s partnership had never agreed, and the announcement was later (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384090) scrubbed from the post…For years, even some of Altman’s closest associates—including Peter Thiel, Altman’s first backer for Hydrazine—didn’t know the circumstances behind Altman’s departure.

No whoopsie there, Sam figured he could do whatever he wanted.

[actionfromafar]

Wasn’t it whoopsied in the SEC filings too?