Sam Altman is the epitome of white privilege. He has zero achievements and still became the president of YC.
How do you think the president of Y Combinator should be determined if not by the original creator?
>Talk to Donald Trump alone sometime for 5 minutes and you'll get it. Super smart dude and it comes through immediately.
Being smart does not make you a nice person, nor does it mean you're incapable of prejudice or harm against anyone. Travis Kalanicks supporters were saying the same things about how nice he was as well, but the allegations of how Uber was being run and the culture of harassment against women reached fever pitch and eventually led to him stepping down from the company.
Taking the allegations Sam was being motivated by the fact Pando is owned by a woman out of the equation, Altman's actions are still pretty damning. The part about having unsubstantiated information from a former employee on Pando is not how someone in his position should act at all.
Appeal to "superficial charm" isn't the greatest argument here.