> Altman tries to push out another board member

That event wasn't some unprovoked start of this history.

> That board member escalates by pushing Altman out (and Brockman off the board)

and the entire company retaliated. Then this board member tried to sell the company to a competitor who refused. In the meantime the board went through two interim CEOs who refused to play along with this scheme. In the meantime one of the people who voted to fire the CEO regretted it publicly within 24 hours. That's a clown car of a board. It reflects the quality of most non-profit boards but not of organizations that actually execute well.