Sam Altman is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on April 22, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tech-focused entrepreneur who been CEO of Loopt and President of Y Combinator and the co-chairman of OpenAI. He was the angel investor for many prominent businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest and Airbnb.
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In 2005, at age 19, Altman co-founded and became CEO of Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application. After raising more than $30M in venture capital, Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction. It was acquired by the Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million.
Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri; his mother was a dermatologist. He received his first computer at the age of 8. He was raised Jewish. He attended John Burroughs School for high school and studied computer science at Stanford University until dropping out in 2005. While studying at Stanford, he worked in the AI Lab. In 2017, he received an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo.
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