After OpenAI sacked Sam Altman, he is now set to join Microsoft. Know 10 lesser-known facts about him.

Samuel Harris Altman was born into a Jewish family on April 22, 1985. He had his first PC at the mere age of eight.

He enrolled at Stanford University to study computer science. He dropped out a year later. In 2005, he decided to pursue other endeavours.

He co-founded social media app Loopt at age of 19. He raised $30 million in VC funds, however, the company failed to find its footing.

He joined a tech startup accelerator Y Combinator as a part-time partner in 2011. Within 3 years, he became the president of Y Combinator.

Altman made it to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2015.

In 2016, he became the president of YC Group which comprised Y Combinator and other units.

He then decided to focus on the AI research lab OpenAI in 2019 and stepped down from the president of the YC Group.

In 2019, he co-founded Tools for Humanity, a company that built a cryptocurrency-based global iris-based biometric system, called Worldcoin.

He then made the complete transition to OpenAI as a CEO and co-founder in 2020. The company had already received funding from tech giants.

He was named in the 100 most influential people by Time Magazine in 2023. He now is set to lead a new advanced AI research team at Microsoft .