Sam Altman is an American investor and entrepreneur, based in San Francisco. He is the co-founder of Hydrazine Capital, the former president of Y Combinator, the creator and former CEO of Loopt as well as the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.
Sam Altman Biography And Net Worth
Net Worth | 200 Million Dollars |
Name | Sam Alton |
Date of Birth | April 22, 1985 |
Age | 37 Years |
Birth Place | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Education | John Burroughs School, Stanford University (2005) |
Profession | CEO of OpenAI |
Sam Altman Early Life
Altman was born in Chicago in 1985. He was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother is a dermatologist by profession. He was raised in a Jewish household. After graduating from the John Burroughs School in St. Louis, he spent two years studying computer science at Stanford University. He eventually dropped out to launch the mobile business “Loopt” in 2005.
Sam Altman Career
In 2005 Sam launched “Loopt” with the money he received from the first class of Y Combinator. Altman was the CEO of Loopt, which raised over $30 million in venture capital. It was until Green Dot Corporation purchased the business in 2012 for $43.4 million. Sam Altman and his brother Jack Altman co-founded Hydrazine Capital in 2012. It is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm that makes investments in the life sciences, specialty food, big data, healthcare, and education sectors. Sam Altman took over from co-founder Paul Graham as president of the seed accelerator Y Combinator (YC) in 2014.
Success
He kept his focus on scaling the investment firm and facilitating its long-term growth. Altman assumed the role of President of the newly expanded YC Group in 2016. Eventually, in 2019, he gave up his position as YC Group President. In 2015, Altman co-founded “OpenAI”, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research and deployment business. The declared goal of the organization was to ensure that artificial general intelligence- highly autonomous systems that exceed humans at the most economically valued work- benefits all of humanity. Altman currently serves as its CEO. Sam Altman has made angel investments in a number of companies including Helion Energy, FarmLogs, Stripe, Reddit, Asana, Pinterest, Zenefits, TrueNorth and Rescale. Beacon AI, Apollo Projects, Boom Supersonic, Titan, Reddit, Fibo, and Quora are a few of the companies in which Altman has invested as a partner.
Altman has also been on the boards of Helion, UPower and Oklo. In 2008 Sam Altman was recognized by Business Week as one of the “Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology.” Forbes recognized Altman as the best investor under 30 in 2015. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo in 2017. In 2020, Altman co-founded “Worldcoin”. But after local contractors left and rules prevented the running of the business, Worldcoin suspended its work in a number of nations.
Sam Altman Partner
Sam Altman is a gay man who came out when he was young and does not currently have a wife.
Net Worth
Sam Altman has a net worth of $200 million as of this writing. His success in his multiple business ventures is the reason for his fortune.
Sam Altman Body Features
Height | 5’6” |
Weight | 65 kg |