
About Sam
Sam Altman co-founded Loopt as a Stanford dropout, then went on to run startup accelerator Y Combinator, backing hundreds of early-stage companies.
He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and became CEO in 2019, steering it from a research lab into the company behind ChatGPT — one of the fastest-adopted products in history.
Altman has become the public face of the generative AI era, pushing OpenAI toward massive compute buildouts and increasingly ambitious model releases.