My take: in any world-class technology company, tech is above everything. You cannot succeed with tech alone, but you will never do without tech. Ilya was able

My take: in any world-class technology company, tech is above everything. You cannot succeed with tech alone, but you will never do without tech. Ilya was able to kick Sam out even with all his significant works and presences because Sam was fundamentally a business guy who lacks of tech ownership. You don't go against the real tech owner, this is a binary choice between either to build a strong tech ownership yourself or to delegate a significant amount of business controls to the tech owner.