Sam Altman

Sam Altman is a well-known entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger from America. He is the former president of an American seed money start-up accelerator Y Combinator and CEO of an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory company OpenAI.

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Biography and early life

Sam Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, US, where he spent his childhood years in St. Loise, Missouri. He was raised by a Jewish mother, Connie Gibstine, who was a Dermatologist. He also has a sibling brother named Jack Altman.

Not much else is known about Sam’s childhood other than his high school and college names. After taking the life-changing decision of dropping out from Stanford University, at just the age of 19, Sam co-founded and became the CEO of Loopt, a social networking mobile application based on location.

After years of being in business, Loopt raised $30 million in venture capital and was shut down in 2012 after being unable to get traction. Green Dot Corporation acquired Loopt for $43.4 million.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Sam Altman in 2021 and what is his height and weight? Well, Sam Altman’s age is 36 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 22 April 1985. Though, he is 5′9’’ in feet and inches and 173 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 160 lbs in Pound and 73kg in Kilograms.

Education

As less is known about Sam Altman’s early life, it is known that he completed his high school education at the John Burroughs School and then went on to be a part of Stanford University. He later dropped out of the university in the year 2005 and started his own company.

After all these years of being focused on his work and creating new businesses, he received an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo in 2017.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Information on the personal life of Samuel Altman is barely available on the internet. As far as sources are concerned, Altman is currently single and is not dating anyone. There isn’t much information about his past relationship endeavors either. And as far as information goes, he has no known children either.

Is Sam Altman gay?

Yes, Samuel H. Altman is an openly gay man. He identifies as gay and has been out since his youth. But information on his partner is still not available. He must have had past relationships, but no such information is available on the internet, but as far as sources are to be taken into consideration, he is currently single.

Professional career

Sam Altman has been an investor in a large number of companies which include big names Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Asana, Pinterest, Teespring, Zenefits, FarmLogs, True North, Shoptiques, Instacart, Optimizely, Verbling, Soylent, Reserve, Vicarious, Clever, Notable PDF (now Kami) and Change.org.

Altman was even the CEO of Reddit for eight-day in the year 2014 after its CEO Yishan Wong resigned but soon announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015.

Towards the beginning of his career, Altman began working as a part-time partner at Y Combinator in 2011. Three years later, in the Feb of 2014, Altman was announced as President of Y Combinator by its co-founder Paul Graham, and his first batch of investments included Loopt.

In a blog post from 2014, the company’s valuation has grossed around $65 million, including big-name companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits, and Stripe. By the year 2016, it was announced that Altman would become the president of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator and various other units.

Awards

In 2015, Samuel Altman was named the top investor under 30 by Forbes and then one of the best “Best Young Entrepreneur in Technology” by BusinessWeek in the year and listed as one of the five most interesting start-up founders between the years 1973 and 2009 by his colleague Paul Graham.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Sam Altman in 2021

As of 2021, the net worth of Altman is around $220 million, which doesn’t really come as a surprise since he has been working and establishing himself since the day he dropped out of Stanford University.

A major portion of his fortune is through his companies OpenAI and Y Combinator. He has also invested in many start-ups, which also brings a considerable amount of wealth.

He is chairman of the board for Helion and Oklo, two nuclear energy companies. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI is a for-profit research company whose goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole rather than cause harm.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Altman helped fund and create Project Covalence, which helps researchers rapidly launch clinical trials in partnership with TrialSpark, a clinical trial start-up. In 2019 Altman held a fundraiser at his house in San Francisco for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Since leaving a prestigious university at the tender age of 19, Samuel H. Altman has continuously worked and created a name for himself among the other world visionaries. He even worked alongside Elon Musk for an AI project and has been praised for his determination towards bringing a change to the world.