How Sam Altman Could Become the First Trillionaire
A nonprofit trillionaire at OpenAI to be specific
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6 min readOct 6, 2023
Sam Altman wants you to think he didn’t take any equity in OpenAI because he “didn’t need the money.” But is that really the full story? Is Altman running OpenAI purely for altruistic purposes, as one might assume given the parent company is still a nonprofit foundation?