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Altman is known to have no capital in OpenAI, but is betting on startups like Reddit, Stripe and Helion still earned him a place on the Forbes billionaires list.
The list is topped by LVMH luxury goods company owner Bernard Arnault, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Sam Altman became the face of the AI boom when his company released ChatGPT in 2022 – but he owes his billion-dollar fortune not to OpenAI, but to smart investments in companies like Reddit, which recently floated on the New York Stock Exchange, and payments company Stripe. whose value is now estimated at $65 billion.
The 36-year-old entrepreneur has also invested in promising new ventures, such as nuclear energy company Helion and startup Retro Biosciences, which is working on technology that could extend human life by 10 years.
Altman is also associated with the Worldcoin project – a month ago the main crypto token of the project reached its highest price of all time at $11.82, and over the past year it has grown by a total of 337.35%. Worldcoin is ready to give every person on the planet a digital ID and a certain amount of cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data.
OpenAI, the company that made Sam Altman famous, is now valued at $80 billion. Last year, he experienced a coup at the startup's board – and almost lost his job as CEO if Microsoft had not intervened. Altman and OpenAI are also grappling with a lawsuit from Elon Musk, who co-founded the company and now claims it has strayed from its purpose of “serving the good of humanity” and instead focused on making money.
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In 2023, Altman was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world.
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