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American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)

Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford University for two years before he dropped out and co-founded Loopt, a geosocial networking application for smartphones. Loopt was acquired by Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million in March 2012. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm, and was the company's president from 2014 to 2019. He is a billionaire, due to investments in over 400 companies including Reddit, Worldcoin, Helion Energy and Instacart. Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and became its CEO in 2019, a role that made him a prominent figure of the AI boom. He supervised the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. In 2023, he was ousted by the organization's board of directors for not being "consistently candid".

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Article table of contents 20 sections
1 Early life and education
2 Business career
2.1 Early career
2.2 Y Combinator
2.3 Investor
2.3.1 Biotech
2.3.2 Reddit
2.3.3 Worldcoin
2.3.4 Energy investments
2.4 OpenAI
2.4.1 OpenAI begins
2.4.2 Deepening investment in OpenAI
2.4.3 Release of ChatGPT
2.4.4 Removal and reinstatement as OpenAI CEO
2.4.5 Elon Musk lawsuit
3 Political engagement
4 Personal life
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
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Sam Altman

American venture capitalist

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human
Place of birth
Chicago
Citizenship
United States
Occupation
businessperson, programmer, entrepreneur, chief executive officer
Employer
Y Combinator, Reddit Inc., Loopt, OpenAI
Educated at
Stanford University, John Burroughs School
Date of birth
1985-04-22
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