I think you're letting your personal feelings about Sam Altman cloud your judgment as to what facts you will accept and which you won't.

Whether Altman has a successful coup going or not is immaterial, but whether is a founder or not is what you asked and you got a pretty solid answer. You can like the answer, or you don't but it stands unopposed.

I have no personal feelings to Altman what so ever. What I dislike is the worship and rewriting of history to appease the business tycoons in the tech industry who are little more than parasites in many cases and I believe this one could be one of those cases.

On the flip side I think your blind worship of these tech business leeches may be clouding your judgement.