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They're not. They don't have board seats. The mission-driven founders of Open AI were very serious about ensuring this.

with the amount they paid, how did they not get a seat in the board?

They did not ever have the possibility of one but decided that their investment was still worth the return.

We can debate whether or not that was wise of them, but because of the charter and structure of OpenAI it was never on the table.