Sam Altman: 1985-2023

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I’ll open up with an excerpt from a fantastic New Yorker article
on Altman:

"Altman has a relentless will to power that, even among
industrialists who put their names on spaceships, sets him apart-
and according to an OpenAI board member: “He’s unconstrained by
truth. He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same
person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be
liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a
sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come
from deceiving someone.”

So in this episode I look at Altman’s progression from app
developer to a massively successful investor- eventually
accumulating a $3.5 billion fortune from his investments, to
taking over and growing Y Combinator, the most influential
incubator and to then battling Elon Musk to eventually take
charge of Open AI and by the time we get to the end, at the age
of just 38 he’s become one of the most influential and powerful
people in business and technology. It’s a cracking story- enjoy.