The real interesting bit, is that Paul Graham somehow thought it was worthwhile to stick his neck out and improve Sam Altman public image by clarifying he was ever fired from YC.
B: Ok, I can't do that. You can replace me
B proceeds to be replaced and no longer works there
Some time later...
T: obviously, B was not fired.
People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman. That's not true. Here's what actually happened. For several years he was running both YC and OpenAI, but when OpenAI announced that it was going to have a for-profit subsidiary and that Sam was going to be the CEO, we (specifically Jessica) told him that if he was going to work full-time on OpenAl, we should find someone else to run YC, and he agreed. If he'd said that he was going to find someone else to be CEO of OpenAI so that he could focus 100% on YC, we'd have been fine with that too. We didn't want him to leave, just to choose one or the other.
He literally directly says they did not fire him and did not want him to leave.
Of course all these people were fired, it's just in the world of very important VC and tech guys, just like in the world of politicians and bureaucrats you can't say that, because 'being fired' is for the desk clerks and floor moppers. Very important executive Bob of course wasn't fired, he choose to spend time with his family