It was amateur city: Satya Nadella on OpenAI firing CEO Sam Altman
Mansi Agarwal, Published on May 12th, 2026

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a court that he never received a convincing explanation from OpenAI's board about why they fired CEO Sam Altman in 2023. "Whenever I asked...why Sam was fired, [the board] never gave me a specific answer...It was amateur city as far as I'm concerned," he said. He was testifying in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI.
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