Sam Altman
Sam Altman · Technology & Engineering
CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT; former president of Y Combinator.
22 April 1985, Chicago, Illinois, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Sam Altman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT; former president of Y Combinator.
Born to a Jewish American family in Chicago and raised in St. Louis, Sam Altman sold his first startup at 19, then ran Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, turning it into the world's founder factory. In 2015 he co-founded OpenAI; as chief executive he shipped ChatGPT in November 2022 — the fastest-adopted consumer product in history to that point — and made artificial intelligence the central question of the decade's technology, economics and politics.
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CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT; former president of Y Combinator.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
