"He wanted to be CEO": Early OpenAI VC Vinod Khosla says Elon Musk’s bid for control led to the Sam Altman feud and his major investment

When Vinod Khosla sat down with Fortune in early March, he offered some key context for one of the most consequential tech trials in American history: Musk vs. Altman. “He wanted to be CEO,” Khosla said of Elon Musk. He explained the context around how Musk and Altman fell out around the governance of a then-obscure AI lab called OpenAI. Khosla added that he “wasn’t privy” to previous internal battles at OpenAI, telling Fortune's Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell to “take that with a grain of salt

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