It’s always fascinating for technology enthusiasts to go back in time to discover (or rediscover) the steps that led tech giants to shape the world as we know it.
We have followed the fundamental steps in the life of Elon Musk, a character loved by many for his versatility, and from the figure of Tesla’s patron we start on this new, short journey to discover some of the “secrets” of Sam Altman, father of ChatGPT and CEO of OpenAI.
Altman, in fact, founded his OpenAI together with the South African entrepreneur in 2015, initially as an exclusively non-profit company. Muskthen, he left the company to focus on his other creations which are focused on Artificial Intelligence (think, for example, of Tesla with its AI Days in which it annually updates the public and investors on the state of the art of this branch of technology) .
About the formative years, however, perhaps not many know that Altman enrolled in Computer Science at Stanford, only to then retire to focus on his first projects. The first of these, the launching pad for his career, was Runningthen sold for $43 million.
He later became president of Y Combinator, an American startup accelerator that, among others, contributed to the success of Twitch and AirBnb. In short, a predestined.
But now it’s your turn: did you already know these interesting aspects of Sam Altman’s life?