Meet Sam Altman, American Entrepreneur and Investor and CEO of OpenAI
His Famous Quotes
✧ "It’s better to build something that a small number of users love, than a large number of users like."
✧ "AI will bring in the next 100 years "will be far larger than all we’ve made since we first controlled fire and invented the wheel"
✧ "Very few startups die from competition, most die because they themselves fail to make something users love."
Did You Know?
✧ He studied computer science at Stanford University but dropped out in 2005 to found Loopt.
✧ In 2017, He received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo
✧ He advocates for universal basic income.
✧ He openly expresses political views. Spoke against Trump after the 2016 election. He talked to 100 Trump supporters to hear their views without revealing their names.
✧ His "childhood idol" was Steve Jobs.
✧ He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023
Recent Events
⇾ Sam Altman departs from OpenAI, as announced by the Board of Directors.
⇾ More than 700 out of 770 OpenAI employees sign a letter threatening to quit if he is not reinstated.
⇾ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals Altman will lead a new advanced AI research team at Microsoft.
⇾ OpenAI agrees in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO with a new board.
Thanks, Sam Altman (@sama), for creating ChatGPT and making things easier for all of us!
➲ #knowtheinventor