Sam Altman
@samaltman
American venture capitalist
Building Merge Lab as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Born
- 1985
- Educated at
- Stanford University · John Burroughs School
About
Sam Altman is a programmer and entrepreneur, born in 1985 in Chicago. They studied at Stanford University. They served as président-directeur général.
In context
Merge Lab was founded in 2025 and has no closure on record. Among the 26,191 other companies founded in the 2020s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 2 years.
Named alongside
- Ajay RoyanDirector
- Christopher PihlExecutive Officer, Director
- David KirtleyExecutive Officer, Director
- John SloughExecutive Officer, Director
- Jeeshan ChowdhuryExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Krishna KanthetiDirector
At OpenAI
- Andrej KarpathyFounder
- Diederik P. KingmaFounder
- Elon MuskFounder
- Greg BrockmanFounder
- Ilya SutskeverFounder
- John SchulmanFounder
- Pamela VagataFounder
- Trevor BlackwellFounder
At Reddit, Inc.
- Alex A. LeExecutive Officer
- Alexis OhanianDirector
- Andrew A. VolleroExecutive Officer
- Benjamin A. LeeExecutive Officer
- Chris A. SloweExecutive Officer
- Harold A. KlajeExecutive Officer
- Jennifer A. WongExecutive Officer
- Joel A. MeekExecutive Officer
- Alexander BlaniaExecutive Officer, Director
- Alex BlaniaChief Executive Officer
- Max NovendsternPresident, and Chief Financial Officer
- Samuel AltmanExecutive Officer, Director
- Thomas ScottChief Legal Officer and Secretary
Contribution
Sam's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.
Companies
- Merge Labbrain-computer interface startup reportedly co-founded by Sam Altman in 2025Founder · brain–computer interface · United States · Founded 2025
- OpenAIAmerican artificial intelligence research organizationFounder · artificial intelligence · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015
- Helion Energy, Inc.Director · Other · REDMOND, United States · Founded 2013
- Reddit, Inc.Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation; listed on NYSE as RDDT; filing with the SEC since 2017Director · Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation · SAN FRANCISCO, United States
- Tools for Humanity CorpDirector · Other Technology · SAN FRANCISCO, United States
- Journey Colab Corp.Director · Pharmaceuticals · SAN FRANCISCO, United States · Founded 2020