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Sam Altman

Sam Altman

Co-founder & CEO of OpenAI

Y Combinator president 2014-2019; co-founder Loopt (2005, acquired 2012); dropped out of Stanford CS

About Sam

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Before OpenAI he ran Y Combinator (2014-2019) and co-founded Loopt, the location-sharing app that exited to Green Dot in 2012. He's the public face of the company that shipped ChatGPT and the GPT family, and one of the most consequential operators in the AI industry's commercial era.