It sounds like Sam wanted to turn OpenAI into Apple with an app store and revenue sharing and hardware designed by Jony Ive—except in about one year instead of the ~30 it took Steve Jobs. This alone could land the company in hot water with the California Attorney General given the non-profit charter. If a single dollar was invested in making any of that a reality, that would count as a misuse of non-profit funds and lead to serious problems when it came time to file Form RRF-1, scheduled to be filed yesterday, the day he was fired. Everything else is sort of besides the point.