3 Questions
What year did Samuel Altman drop out of Stanford?
2005
What fund did Altman announce in October 2015?
YC Continuity
What is the goal of OpenAI, which Altman chairs the board of?
To advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity
Study Notes
- Samuel Altman was born on April 22, 1985 in St. Louis, Missouri.
- He attended John Burroughs School for high school and studied computer science at Stanford University until dropping out in 2005.
- Altman began his career as CEO of Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application, in 2005.
- In February 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator by its cofounder Paul Graham.
- Altman's first batch of investments included Loopt.
- 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.
- In October 2015, Altman announced YC Continuity, a $700 million growth-stage equity fund that invests in YC companies.
- Altman was named the top investor under 30 by Forbes in 2015.
- In March 2019, YC announced Altman's transitioning into a Chairman position to focus more on OpenAI.
- Altman is the chairman of the board for Helion and Oklo, two nuclear energy companies.
- OpenAI is a capped-profit research company whose goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.
- Altman is the co-founder, president and CEO of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator
- He is also a computer scientist and entrepreneur
- He has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a master's degree from Stanford
- He has been involved in a number of startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit
- In 2019 he founded worldcoin, a digital currency that aims to give its new currency to every human on Earth for free
- In 2020 he donated $250,000 to American Bridge 21st century, a super PAC supporting Joe Biden's presidential campaign
- He is a vegetarian and a supporter of social justice.
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