Sam Altman

Samuel Harris Altman (/ˈɔːltmən/ AWLT-mən; born April 22, 1985) is an American businessman and investor. He has been chief executive officer of OpenAI sinc…

Sam Altman
Sam Altman
Altman in 2019
Born
Samuel Harris Altman

(1985-04-22) April 22, 1985 (age 41)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationStanford University (dropped out)
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forLoopt, Y Combinator, OpenAI
Websiteblog.samaltman.com

Samuel Harris Altman (/ˈɔːltmən/ AWLT-mən; born April 22, 1985) is an American businessman and investor. He has been chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019 (even though he was briefly fired in 2023) and president of Y Combinator from 2011 to 2019.

Altman was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.[1]

Early life

Altman was born in Chicago on April 22, 1985.[2] He was born to a Jewish American family. His mother is Connie Gibstine, who is a dermatologist. His father is Jerry Altman, who was a real estate broker.[3][4] Sam Altman is the eldest of four siblings: he has two brothers and one sister.[5] One of his brothers is an investor named Jack Altman.[5] His great-grandfather from his father's side was born in Płock, Poland.[6] His great-grandmother from his father's side was born in Płońsk, Poland.[7] In 1989, the Altman family moved to Jerry's hometown of Clayton, Missouri.[8]

When he was eight years old, Altman received his first computer — an Apple Macintosh. He began learning how to write computer code, and disassemble and examine computer hardware.[9][10]

Sam Altman attended Wydown Middle School and briefly attended Clayton High School, which are both located in Clayton, Missouri. Then, he moved to The John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, Missouri.[11]

In 2005, he studied computer science for two years at Stanford University in Stanford, California, then he dropped out without earning a bachelor's degree.[12][13]

Business life

References

  1. ↑ "Time 100". Time. April 13, 2023. Archived from the original on April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  2. ↑ Hao, Karen (2025). Empire of AI: dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-0-593-65750-8.
  3. ↑ Hagey 2025, pp. 22–23, 30–31, 33, 36.
  4. ↑ Chapman, Glenn; Bachner, Michael; Magid, Jacob; Ben-David, Ricky; Schneider, Tal; Magid, Jacob; Bachner, Michael; Sharon, Jeremy (May 17, 2023). "Sam Altman: The quick, deep thinker leading OpenAI". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on June 1, 2023. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Weil, Elizabeth (September 25, 2023). "Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  6. ↑ Hagey 2025, p. 23.
  7. ↑ "Altman, Sam". thebreman.aviaryplatform.com. The Breman Museum. 2022-12-03. 0:00-1:00. Retrieved 2026-11-03.
  8. ↑ Hagey 2025, pp. 38–39.
  9. ↑ Junod, Tom (December 18, 2014). "How Venture Capitalists Find Opportunities in the Future". Esquire. Archived from the original on December 20, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Afifi-Sabet, Keumars. "Sam Altman: the OpenAI CEO leading the AI revolution". The Week. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  11. ↑ Nguyen, Britney; Hart, Jordan (February 20, 2024). "Meet Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of guns and gold". Business Insider. Archived from the original on February 5, 2026. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  12. ↑ Hagy, Paige (November 21, 2023). "Sam Altman's ousting from OpenAI could lead to even greater success: 'You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years and he'd be the king'". Fortune. Archived from the original on December 5, 2025. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
  13. ↑ "People". Y Combinator. Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2015.


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