I'm pretty sure that's what happened. Sam and Greg were trying to stage a coup, the rest of the board got wind of it and successfully countered in time (got to

I'm pretty sure that's what happened. Sam and Greg were trying to stage a coup, the rest of the board got wind of it and successfully countered in time (got to them first). What they didn't expect is that a bunch of their own technical staff would be so loyal to Sam (or at least so prone to the cult of personality). Now they're caught in a Catch-22.