I wouldn’t hold Sam bringing him over in too high a regard. Fucking each other over is a sport in Silicon Valley. You’re subservient exactly until the moment you sense an opportunity to dominate. It’s just business.
If this Quora guy is the cause of all this, Altman only has himself to blame since he is the reason the Quora guy is on the board.
Also Quora seems like a good source of question-and-answer data which has probably been key in gpt-instruct training.