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- Getting fired from OpenAI was "unbelievably painful," says Sam Altman.
- Altman said "the only comparable set of life experience" he had was when his father passed away.
- Altman was fired as CEO on November 17, but returned just days later.
Losing the OpenAI CEO gig hit Sam Altman very hard.
"The only comparable set of life experience I had, and that one was of course much worse, was when my dad died," Sam Altman told Trevor Noah in a podcast interview, which aired on Thursday.