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- Sam Altman has emerged from a boardroom battle at OpenAI bruised but victorious.
- A takeaway for other founders: control matters.
- Altman's former boss, Paul Graham, wrote a prescient essay about control at startups.
Sam Altman has been back in the OpenAI hot seat as CEO for about a week now.
On the surface, little appears different for the ChatGPT boss who was fired and rehired last month. He is in charge at the start of December, as he was at the start of November.