Sam Altman Biography
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator. Altman co-founded Worldcoin in 2020. Worldcoin aims to give its new digital money to every human on Earth for free by using privacy-preserving iris recognition to ensure that its users do not claim their free share more than once. Worldcoin paused its work in multiple countries after local contractors departed or regulations made doing business impossible.
Sam Altman Age
Samuel H. Altman was born on 22nd April 22, 1985 Chicago, Illinois, US.
Sam Altman Height
He stand at a height of 5 feet and 6 inches.
Sam Altman Parents
Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri; his mother is a dermatologist. He received his first computer at the age of 8. He was raised Jewish.
Sam Altman Education
He attended John Burroughs School for high school and studied computer science at Stanford University until dropping out in 2005. In 2017, he received an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo.
Sam Altman Career
Loopt
In 2005, at age 19, Altman co-founded and became CEO of Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application. After raising more than $30M in venture capital, Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction. It was acquired by the Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million.
Y Combinator
Altman began as a part-time partner at Y Combinator in 2011. In February 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator by its cofounder Paul Graham. His first batch of investments included Loopt. In a 2014 blog post, Altman said that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies had surpassed $65 billion, including well-known companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits and Stripe. In September 2016, Altman announced that he would become president of YC Group, which included Y Combinator and other units.
Altman said that he hoped to expand Y Combinator to fund 1,000 new companies per year. He also tried to expand the types of companies funded by YC, especially ‘hard technology’ companies.
In October 2015, Altman announced YC Continuity, a $700 million growth-stage equity fund that invests in YC companies. Also in October 2015, Altman announced Y Combinator Research, a non-profit research lab, and donated $10 million to the group. YC Research has thus far announced research on basic income, the future of computing, education, and building new cities.
Altman was named the top investor under 30 by Forbes in 2015, one of the “Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology” by BusinessWeek in 2008 and listed as one of the five most interesting startup founders between 1979 and 2009 by his colleague Paul Graham.
In March 2019, YC announced Altman’s transitioning into a Chairman position to focus more on OpenAI. This decision came shortly after YC announced it would be moving its headquarters to San Francisco. As of early 2020, he is no longer affiliated with YC.
Angel investing
He is an investor in many companies, including Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Asana, Pinterest, Teespring, Zenefits, FarmLogs, True North, Shoptiques, Instacart, Optimizely, Verbling, Soylent, Reserve, Vicarious, Clever, Notable PDF, Change.org
He 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.
Nuclear energy
He is chairman of the board for Helion and Oklo, two nuclear energy companies. He has said that nuclear energy is one of the most important areas of technological development.
OpenAI
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI is a for profit research company whose goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, rather than cause harm.
Worldcoin
Altman co-founded Worldcoin in 2020. Worldcoin aims to give its new digital money to every human on Earth for free by using privacy-preserving iris recognition to ensure that its users do not claim their free share more than once. Worldcoin paused its work in multiple countries after local contractors departed or regulations made doing business impossible.
Philanthropy
During the COVID-19 pandemic Altman helped fund and create Project Covalence which aimed to help researchers rapidly launch clinical trials in partnership with TrialSpark a clinical trial startup.
Politics
In 2019 Altman held a fundraiser at his house in San Francisco for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
In May 2020 Altman donated $250k to American Bridge 21st century, a Super-PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Personal life
Altman has been vegetarian since childhood.
Sam Altman Net worth
Sam has an accumulated net worth of around $200 Million.
Sam Altman Instagram
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