Sam Altman

Okay, I'll admit I find Sam Altman genuinely fascinating, partly because he doesn't look the part of the guy steering the AI revolution. He's the soft-spoken Stanford dropout who co-founded Loopt, ran Y Combinator like a quiet kingmaker for the whole startup world, and then, as OpenAI's CEO, casually handed everyone ChatGPT and watched the planet lose its mind. What gets me is the contrast: he talks about reshaping civilization in this flat, almost sleepy voice, like he's ordering coffee. No flashy showman energy, just relentless conviction wrapped in calm. You can love or fear where he's pushing things, but you can't ignore him. He's the rare tech figure who feels less like a hype man and more like someone genuinely betting the future, eyes wide open.

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Name (English)

Sam Altman

Name (Japanese)

サム・アルトマン

Reading

さむ・あるとまん

Born

April 22, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

businessperson / programmer / entrepreneur / chief executive officer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

University

Stanford University

Awards & achievements

• 2017 honorary doctorate

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://blog.samaltman.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sama/
• Xhttps://x.com/sama
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Altman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7407093

Tags

• Illinois
• businessperson
• programmer
• entrepreneur

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.