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This is where it all started. Here, 19-yo Stanford dropout Sam Altman giving his first-ever startup pitch. He dropped out of Stanford to start Loopt, sold it in 2012 for $43.4 mn. Then invested via Hydrazine and later led Y Combinator before co-founding OpenAI in 2015

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Mario Gabriele

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Eric Daugherty

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Carolynn and I have known Sam Altman for his whole career. In fact it was Sam who introduced us. So today's Social Radars is a special one. Join us as we talk to Sam about the inside story of his journey from Stanford sophomore to AI mogul.

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Jessica Livingston

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He invested $25 million and turned it into $4 billion, then the Russian government stole $230 million in taxes his fund had paid this is him telling the full story at Stanford it started with $4,000 in Polish stocks that went up 10x in 12 months. he quit Salomon Brothers, started his own fund, was up 800% in 18 months "clients were inviting me to their yachts. I was in my early 30s. I thought I'd figured it all out" then Russia defaulted. his $1 billion went to $100 million in one day - "there were no more yacht invitations after that"

He invested $25 million and turned it into $4 billion, then the Russian government stole $230 million in taxes his fund had paid this is him telling the full story at Stanford it started with $4,000 in Polish stocks that went up 10x in 12 months. he quit Salomon Brothers, started his own fund, was up 800% in 18 months "clients were inviting me to their yachts. I was in my early 30s. I thought I'd figured it all out" then Russia defaulted. his $1 billion went to $100 million in one day - "there were no more yacht invitations after that"

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In 2005, Sam Altman was a Stanford sophomore in YC’s first batch, building a startup in a little Cambridge office while Paul Graham cooked the founders dinner. Twenty years later, as co-founder & CEO of OpenAI, Sam closed Startup School 2026 in conversation with Garry Tan — on agents, ambition, and why the ceiling for what a startup can take on has never been higher. 00:07 — From YC’s First Batch to Today 03:04 — What PG Taught Sam 04:17 — Why Startups Matter More Than Ever 06:57 — The Coming Golden Age of Ambitious Startups 09:30 — Why Startups Win During Technology Shifts 11:46 — Building OpenAI When Nobody Believed in AGI 14:45 — Finding People Who Share Your Conviction 18:05 — Help People Before You Know Why 19:43 — Earnestness, Ambition, and Ignoring the Haters 24:04 — The AI Safety Incident That Changed the Stakes 26:58 — Preventing AI From Concentrating Power 30:41 — How Fast AI Models Will Improve 36:06 — The Best Version of an AI Future 37:47 — “It’s All Going to Work Out”

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Gunther Eagleman™

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Sam Parr

90,292 views • 21 days ago

This story from Jessica Livingston about Sam Altman when he was 19 really talks about his personality. When PG was talking to Sam about interviewing for YC's first batch Sam emailed - "I'm pitching at a Stanford pitch contest so I can only interview on Saturday and not Sunday" PG replied back: "You know Sam you're only a freshman why don't you come next yr, this isn't your only chance" Sam replied with one line: "I'm a Sophomore & I'm coming" And he really did, then the interview for his first company loops was a no-brainer, they were really impressed by him.

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$🇺🇸 OPENAI IS ABOUT TO IPO AND IT COULD LITERALLY CHANGE YOUR LIFE. In 1999, $NVDA went public and if you invested $10,000, you would've had $86 million today. Sam Altman is giving you another chance this year but with OpenAI. If this IPO does even a fraction of what Nvidia did, you will become a millionaire Do not miss your opportunity of a lifetime.$

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"I'm a white dude named Chad who worked in private equity. Should I feel bad that I got into Stanford because people with access sent texts for me?" Chad Janis says no. He didn't get into McKinsey, but a mentor gave him Lazard access, and he crushed it. That led to Summit Partners, where he invested $1.5B of a $5B fund. Then people texted Stanford on his behalf and he got in. Why? He made their lives easier and earned their trust. People only send "the text" for people who won't make them look stupid. So if you don't have access, find people who do and work your ass off for them. And if you do have access, pay it forward to the next person who earns it. Sam Parr Shaan Puri

"I'm a white dude named Chad who worked in private equity. Should I feel bad that I got into Stanford because people with access sent texts for me?" Chad Janis says no. He didn't get into McKinsey, but a mentor gave him Lazard access, and he crushed it. That led to Summit Partners, where he invested $1.5B of a $5B fund. Then people texted Stanford on his behalf and he got in. Why? He made their lives easier and earned their trust. People only send "the text" for people who won't make them look stupid. So if you don't have access, find people who do and work your ass off for them. And if you do have access, pay it forward to the next person who earns it. Sam Parr Shaan Puri

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216,868 views • 3 months ago

Jack Dent story time - his path from high school in the UK to founding Chai is pretty amazing: - Cold-emailed Stripe as a teenager - Daniela Amodei was running Stripe’s careers inbox and forwarded his email to Patrick Collison - Interned on Stripe’s payments API and eventually became the only engineer working on it - Greg Brockman walked around the office with no shoes - Met Joshua Meier while at Harvard. Years later, Sam Altman Facebook-messaged him about Josh when he was leaving OAI - asked if he could be convinced to stay or start a company ... All of it became part of the path to co-founding Chai Discovery a few years later. Early Stripe was a talent epicenter Daniela Amodei Patrick Collison Greg Brockman Sam Altman

Jack Dent story time - his path from high school in the UK to founding Chai is pretty amazing: - Cold-emailed Stripe as a teenager - Daniela Amodei was running Stripe’s careers inbox and forwarded his email to Patrick Collison - Interned on Stripe’s payments API and eventually became the only engineer working on it - Greg Brockman walked around the office with no shoes - Met Joshua Meier while at Harvard. Years later, Sam Altman Facebook-messaged him about Josh when he was leaving OAI - asked if he could be convinced to stay or start a company ... All of it became part of the path to co-founding Chai Discovery a few years later. Early Stripe was a talent epicenter Daniela Amodei Patrick Collison Greg Brockman Sam Altman

Sabrina Halper

33,476 views • 2 months ago

Sam Altman just got sued by Apple. And that's not even his biggest problem this year!! His own co-founder, Elon Musk, spent two years trying to prove in court that Altman betrayed him. 😯 Now Apple says OpenAI stole its secrets too. Two billion-dollar wars. One CEO in the middle. 🤨 Back in 2015, Musk and Altman built OpenAI as a nonprofit, a lab to build AI safely before Google could lock it down. Musk put in $38 million. Altman turned OpenAI into a for-profit company. Apple's claim: OpenAI stole its secrets to build it. OpenAI's hardware boss, Tang Tan, a former Apple VP, allegedly told job candidates still at Apple to bring "actual parts," like batteries and logic boards, for "show and tell." Is his empire standing on stolen ground? 🤔 Tell us what you think, and subscribe Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial for more.

Sam Altman just got sued by Apple. And that's not even his biggest problem this year!! His own co-founder, Elon Musk, spent two years trying to prove in court that Altman betrayed him. 😯 Now Apple says OpenAI stole its secrets too. Two billion-dollar wars. One CEO in the middle. 🤨 Back in 2015, Musk and Altman built OpenAI as a nonprofit, a lab to build AI safely before Google could lock it down. Musk put in $38 million. Altman turned OpenAI into a for-profit company. Apple's claim: OpenAI stole its secrets to build it. OpenAI's hardware boss, Tang Tan, a former Apple VP, allegedly told job candidates still at Apple to bring "actual parts," like batteries and logic boards, for "show and tell." Is his empire standing on stolen ground? 🤔 Tell us what you think, and subscribe Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial for more.

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OpenAI saga in 90 seconds: - Thursday night, Sam Altman gets a text from Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist & board member asking to chat on Friday. - Friday at Noon, Sam Altman is fired by the Open AI board because he was “not consistently candid in his communications.” - CTO Mira Murati is made Interim CEO. - Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, found out about the move 1 minute before the announcement. Their stock gets crushed. - Right after, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President is asked to chat, where he’s told he’s removed from the board but retaining his role. - Greg resigns from OpenAI in solidarity with Sam Altman shortly after. - Tech news & twitter subsequently blow the f*ck up. - Sam Altman fires off a few tweets saying how grateful he was for openAI and the people and how he’d have more things to say soon. - OpenAI employees start tweeting hearts supposedly a signal to the board of who would leave OpenAI to follow Sam Altman if the decision was kept. - By Saturday, rumors start that the OpenAI board is in discussions to bring Sam Altman back as CEO. - Sam Altman tweets out a picture of him wearing a guest pass at OpenAI HQ. - Microsoft & Satya Nadella lead the charge to negotiate with the board. - Board negotiation ends with Altman officially being out on Sunday night & employees streaming out of the office. - Monday morning Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear is named interim CEO. - Around the same time, Satya Nadella announces that Sam is joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI research group & former OpenAI leaders like Greg Brockman are joining him. - Still Monday Morning, OpenAI employees share a letter with the board where 650 of 700 employees tell the board to resign.

OpenAI saga in 90 seconds: - Thursday night, Sam Altman gets a text from Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist & board member asking to chat on Friday. - Friday at Noon, Sam Altman is fired by the Open AI board because he was “not consistently candid in his communications.” - CTO Mira Murati is made Interim CEO. - Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, found out about the move 1 minute before the announcement. Their stock gets crushed. - Right after, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President is asked to chat, where he’s told he’s removed from the board but retaining his role. - Greg resigns from OpenAI in solidarity with Sam Altman shortly after. - Tech news & twitter subsequently blow the f*ck up. - Sam Altman fires off a few tweets saying how grateful he was for openAI and the people and how he’d have more things to say soon. - OpenAI employees start tweeting hearts supposedly a signal to the board of who would leave OpenAI to follow Sam Altman if the decision was kept. - By Saturday, rumors start that the OpenAI board is in discussions to bring Sam Altman back as CEO. - Sam Altman tweets out a picture of him wearing a guest pass at OpenAI HQ. - Microsoft & Satya Nadella lead the charge to negotiate with the board. - Board negotiation ends with Altman officially being out on Sunday night & employees streaming out of the office. - Monday morning Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear is named interim CEO. - Around the same time, Satya Nadella announces that Sam is joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI research group & former OpenAI leaders like Greg Brockman are joining him. - Still Monday Morning, OpenAI employees share a letter with the board where 650 of 700 employees tell the board to resign.

Alex Lieberman

957,470 views • 2 years ago

Here is one of the best defensive plays ever and it may have single-handedly won the T20 World Cup Final for India. Pay attention to where Suryakumar Yadav’s feet are the whole time - if the ball, and the player with the ball in his hand cross the boundary that you can see here - South Africa gets 6 runs (points - it’s 6 if it goes straight out, 4 if it rolls/bounces out). Yadav first of all gets to it before it goes out, then he tosses it in the air to re-gain his balance and momentum, gets back in field and secures the catch. Unbelievable presence of mind

Here is one of the best defensive plays ever and it may have single-handedly won the T20 World Cup Final for India. Pay attention to where Suryakumar Yadav’s feet are the whole time - if the ball, and the player with the ball in his hand cross the boundary that you can see here - South Africa gets 6 runs (points - it’s 6 if it goes straight out, 4 if it rolls/bounces out). Yadav first of all gets to it before it goes out, then he tosses it in the air to re-gain his balance and momentum, gets back in field and secures the catch. Unbelievable presence of mind

Daman Rangoola

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Elizabeth Holmes is a winner. She is being abused in prison for never giving up. We need to live in a world where optimism wins. Stanford is one of the brightest beacons of optimism. "The wind of freedom blows" is the motto. It's why I chose Stanford over Berkeley and MIT. Elizabeth is in a cage in hell. She has more value to provide the world outside of prison. Theranos victims are not being helped with her in prison. I am falling on my sword for this as Ben Horowitz told me to do when I met with him in his office after I saved his life with my AI skin cancer detection. He seems to have forgotten about this. But I'm not a martyr Ben. I'm a winner. We need to get Elizabeth, a daughter, a wife, a mother of two children out of the hell she's in and back to her family. I don't know what to do about this. I have reached out to literally everyone. Maybe you can help Stanford. Thank you for giving me an amazing education. I am grateful. Stanford University Stanford UniversityAILab Sebastian Thrun Fei-Fei Li benahorowitz.eth Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

Elizabeth Holmes is a winner. She is being abused in prison for never giving up. We need to live in a world where optimism wins. Stanford is one of the brightest beacons of optimism. "The wind of freedom blows" is the motto. It's why I chose Stanford over Berkeley and MIT. Elizabeth is in a cage in hell. She has more value to provide the world outside of prison. Theranos victims are not being helped with her in prison. I am falling on my sword for this as Ben Horowitz told me to do when I met with him in his office after I saved his life with my AI skin cancer detection. He seems to have forgotten about this. But I'm not a martyr Ben. I'm a winner. We need to get Elizabeth, a daughter, a wife, a mother of two children out of the hell she's in and back to her family. I don't know what to do about this. I have reached out to literally everyone. Maybe you can help Stanford. Thank you for giving me an amazing education. I am grateful. Stanford University Stanford UniversityAILab Sebastian Thrun Fei-Fei Li benahorowitz.eth Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

Brett Kuprel

637,028 views • 9 months ago

The two most powerful men in AI are in a courtroom right now here’s everything you need to know: 2015: musk and altman co-found OpenAI promise: nonprofit. for humanity. forever. musk invested $38 million 2018: musk tries to take control. altman says no. musk leaves. 2026: OpenAI valued at $852 billion. IPO coming. musk: “scam altman stole a charity. full stop.” altman: “christmas in april 🎄” opening statements happening right now in oakland altman. brockman. satya nadella. all testifying. the judge already told them to stop posting on x this morning they didn’t listen 26 claims. dropped to 2 the future of the most powerful AI company ever built decided by 9 jurors in oakland I’ll be watching

The two most powerful men in AI are in a courtroom right now here’s everything you need to know: 2015: musk and altman co-found OpenAI promise: nonprofit. for humanity. forever. musk invested $38 million 2018: musk tries to take control. altman says no. musk leaves. 2026: OpenAI valued at $852 billion. IPO coming. musk: “scam altman stole a charity. full stop.” altman: “christmas in april 🎄” opening statements happening right now in oakland altman. brockman. satya nadella. all testifying. the judge already told them to stop posting on x this morning they didn’t listen 26 claims. dropped to 2 the future of the most powerful AI company ever built decided by 9 jurors in oakland I’ll be watching

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22,010 views • 3 months ago

This is where it all started 🚨 Maxine Waters was the first one they sent out to start the hatred of Trump & his voters Since then, there's been (3) attempts on his life... and Democrats haven't stopped yet These people are evil...

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