About Sam
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor born April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He dropped out of Stanford University after two years to co-found Loopt, a location-based social networking application, which was acquired by Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million in 2012. He became a partner at Y Combinator in 2011 and served as president from 2014 to 2019. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and has served as its CEO since 2019, overseeing the launch of ChatGPT.
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Business Leader / ExecutiveEntrepreneurSpeakerAI Safety And RegulationArtificial IntelligenceChatGPTNuclear Energy InvestmentOpenAITechnology StartupsVenture Capital
Known for
- Co-founding and leading OpenAI
- Development and launch of ChatGPT
- Venture capital investing and Y Combinator presidency
- Early-stage technology company investments
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