Sam Altman is an American investor and entrepreneur known for his work in artificial intelligence. He has been the CEO of OpenAI since 2019, except for a brief removal and reinstatement in 2023. Before that, he was the president of Y Combinator (2014-2019), where he helped support startups like Airbnb and Stripe.
Altman left Stanford University after two years in 2005 to start Loopt, a social mapping company that sold for $43 million in 2012. Though he does not own shares in OpenAI, his investments in firms like Stripe and Reddit have made him very wealthy.
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1. What company is Sam Altman the CEO of?
2. Where did Sam Altman go to university before he left to start his own company?
3. What company did Sam Altman help sell for $43 million in 2012?
1. Do you use any apps or websites like Airbnb or Stripe? What do you think of them?
2. If you could start your own company, what would it be about?
3. Have you ever had to make a big decision, like Sam Altman leaving university to start his company? How did you decide?