2024-05-11
1 小时 43 分钟i first met our next guest sam altman almost twenty years ago when he was working on a local mobile app called looped.
Who are both backed by sequoia capital and in fact we were both in the first class of sequoia scouts he did investment in a little unknown fintech company called stripe i did uber.
And in that tiny experiment i never heard that before.
That tiny experimental fund that Sam and I were part of a scouts is Sequoia's highest multiple returning fund.
A couple of low digit millions turned into over 200 million, I'm told.
And then he did, yeah, that's what I was told by Ruloff, yeah.
And he did a stint at Y Combinator, where he was president from 2014 to 2019.
In 2016,
he co-founded OpenAI with the goal of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
In 2019, he left YC to join OpenAI full-time as CEO.
Things got really interesting on November 30th of 2022.
That's the day OpenAI launched ChatGPT.
In January 2023, Microsoft invested 10 billion in November 2023.
over a crazy five days span sam was fired from open a i everybody was gonna go work at microsoft a bunch of hard emojis when viral on x slash twitter.
And people started speculating that the team had reached artificial general intelligence the world was gonna end and suddenly.
Couple days later he was back to being the c.e.l.
of open a i.
In february sam was reportedly looking to raise seven trillion dollars for an a i chip project this after was reported.
That Sam was looking to raise a billion from Masayoshi-san to create an iPhone killer with Johnny Ive,
the co-creator of the iPhone.