Comment by ilikehurdles

Here's a relevant totally hypothetical "long con" involving Ellen Pao's hiring-and-firing and re-hiring of the original founders: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

The hypothesis is posed by Yishan Wong, an ex-CEO, with responses from Altman and Ohanian.

edit: I made a mistake understanding this story. Please see the correct timeline in geofft's comment.