Sam Altman

About

Tech entrepreneur who has served as the CEO of Loopt, the president of Y Combinator, and the co-chairman of OpenAI. He has been an angel investor in several high-profile companies, including Reddit, Pinterest, and Airbnb.

Before Fame

He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and went to high school at John Burroughs School. He studied computer science at Stanford University before dropping out in 2005.

Trivia

He was the CEO of Reddit for barely over 1 week in 2014 following the resignation of Yishan Wong. On November 30, 2022, via Twitter, he announced the launch of ChatGPT.  The artificial intelligence went viral on Twitter with users showing off answers that ChatGPT was returning to a variety of questions.

Family Life

He has a brother named Jack. 

Associated With

Elon Musk had enthusiasm for ChatGPT on Twitter after the technology launched, and he interacted with Sam directly on Twitter about it.  Other entrepreneurs to discuss ChatGPT on Twitter include Alexis Ohanian, Marc Andreessen, and Aaron Levie.