However, Sam Altman is not alone in this league. According to a post by the World of Statistics on X, several founders were fired from their own businesses, including, Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, Travis Kalanick and Sachin and Binny Bansal, among others.
Justin Zhu, who was fired from Iterable Inc. last year after disagreements with his investors, claims in a complaint filed in state court in San Francisco that the company's stated reason for firing him, that he violated company policy by using an illegal drug, was "pretextual and a subterfuge."