AISam Altman’s Loopt demo at Apple’s WWDC 2008
A retrospective post traces Altman’s path from co-founding Loopt to OpenAI, including Loopt’s $43.4 million sale to Green Dot in 2012.
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A post looks back at a 23-year-old Sam Altman demoing Loopt at Apple’s WWDC 2008. It says he left Stanford at 19 in 2005 to co-found Loopt in Y Combinator’s first batch, and that Loopt sold to Green Dot for $43.4 million in 2012. The account then traces his career through co-founding Hydrazine Capital, becoming Y Combinator president and co-founding OpenAI in 2015.
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Sam Altman’s Loopt demo at Apple’s WWDC 2008
A retrospective post traces Altman’s path from co-founding Loopt to OpenAI, including Loopt’s $43.4 million sale to Green Dot in 2012.
TLDR
A post looks back at a 23-year-old Sam Altman demoing Loopt at Apple’s WWDC 2008. It says he left Stanford at 19 in 2005 to co-found Loopt in Y Combinator’s first batch, and that Loopt sold to Green Dot for $43.4 million in 2012. The account then traces his career through co-founding Hydrazine Capital, becoming Y Combinator president and co-founding OpenAI in 2015.