Also interesting that D’Angelo was the one who was negotiating with OpenAI leadership as representative of the board,[1] and the employee protest letter states that the board "informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed would be consistent with the mission" during these negotiations.[2]
Note that "allowing the company to be destroyed" is outside of the literal quote (which is just "consistent with the mission"), so "destroyed" may be an appraisal by the leadership that the board doesn't share.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/openai-s-...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...