Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor and programmer. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator. Altman is also the co-founder of Loopt and Worldcoin.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, which is a capped-profit research company whose goal is to advance artificial intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, rather than cause harm. The organization was initially funded by Altman, Brockman, Elon Musk, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services, Infosys and YC Research. In total, when the company launched in 2015, it had raised $1 billion from outside funders.
He recently received world wide attention when ChatGPT – OpenAI’s new chatbot was released to the world.
At the video below Sam explains in 16 minutes what are the main factors of a winning statrup. You can access the full Startup School course – a free online course on how to start a startup by Y combinator.