How Sam Altman Could Become the First Trillionaire

A nonprofit trillionaire at OpenAI to be specific

Johnny P
The Generator
Published in
6 min readOct 6, 2023

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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?

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Johnny P
The Generator

Lawyer writing on law & politics, artificial intelligence, and the future of it all.