Who is Sam Altman?
Altman was born into a Jewish family, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.
His mother is a dermatologist. He received his first computer at the age of eight.
He attended John Burroughs School. In 2005, after one year at Stanford University studying computer science, he dropped out without earning a bachelors degree.
Sam Altman Career
Loopt
In 2005, at the age of 19, Altman co-founded Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application
Y Combinator
Altman became a partner at Y Combinator in 2011, initially working there on a part-time basis. In February 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator by its co-founder, Paul Graham.
Altman was the CEO of Reddit for eight days in 2014 after CEO Yishan Wong resigned. He announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015.
OpenAI
By 2020, Altman had left Y Combinator to focus full-time on OpenAI as CEO. OpenAI was initially funded by Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and YC Research… Read more about Sam Altman Career here
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