Sam Altman
22 April 1985 – present
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who is chief executive of OpenAI. He left Stanford University to co-found the location-sharing company Loopt in 2005, led the startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and co-founded OpenAI in 2015, the laboratory that released ChatGPT in November 2022.
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Life events
Born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft without completing the degree in order to work on Loopt.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe location-based social networking company was part of Y Combinator's first batch of startups.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLed the startup accelerator, succeeding Paul Graham, until stepping down to focus on OpenAI.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAnnounced as a non-profit artificial intelligence research organisation alongside Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and others.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe conversational interface reached a mass audience within weeks and prompted wide public debate about generative artificial intelligence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe board dismissed him and, after employee and investor pressure, he returned to the role within days under a reconstituted board.
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