Sam Altman was born in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri., He studied computer science at Stanford University but dropped out to pursue entrepreneurship., Altman co-founded the location-based social networking startup Loopt in 2005, which was later acquired by Green Dot Corporation in 2012., After Loopt, he joined Y Combinator (YC) as a partner and became a prominent figure in the accelerator’s ecosystem., He served as president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, helping to expand YC’s programs and scale funding for startups., In 2015, Altman co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company focused on artificial intelligence safety and beneficial AI., He became the CEO of OpenAI (initially the nonprofit, and later the for-profit capped LP structure) and has led the organization through major AI model launches including GPT-3 (2020) and GPT-4 (2023)., Under his leadership, OpenAI adopted a capped-profit model (OpenAI LP) to attract capital while aiming to align incentives with broad societal benefit., Altman has been a vocal advocate for AI safety, ethics, and policy, emphasizing responsible development and governance of powerful AI systems., In addition to OpenAI and YC, he has engaged in investing and advisory activities across numerous tech companies and initiatives, including involvement with emerging AI projects and global technology policy discussions., video, Demand for AI, Labour impact, AI anxiety, AI IPO race, corporate AI spending

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