I did a pre-interview to work for one of Sam's first startups, the mobile one that had the date via GPS idea. Turned down going beyond the pre-interview due to concept and funding combination not being compatible with reality. You have to remember at that point in time Mobile OEMs were locking down GPS access through apps and Mobile Operators were attempting to pretend they were VCs.
Not every slide deck that gets money is a good slide deck!!
If I had a pre-interview for a job at Amazon, does that mean I have a Jeff Bezos story?
"I have a pre-interview story..."
Let's be real here, this was a rather poor attempt at name dropping Sam. It also had nothing to do with Sam.
It also had nothing to do with how the company was run, which they'd really know very little about, given that it was a pre-interview. They turned the offer to continue down due to the concept, not how it was run.
If the person had described sitting down at an interview with Sam and discussing the way the company was run, then I'd call that a Sam story about how the company was run.
Did I walk through this slowly enough for you?
Reports it back to us as Sam Altman launches another fly-by-night operation.
Sorry, but it's a Sam Altman story.
It is a story about a pre-interview, not a story about Sam.
And no, not by own bias, just an accurate reading of OP's story about his operation.