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Samuel H. "Sam" Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist and blogger. He is the President of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI.
Altman grew up in the Midwest, received his first computer aged 8, and studied computer science at Stanford University until dropping out in 2005.
At age 19, Altman was a co-founder and CEO of Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application. Loopt was acquired in 2012 by Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million.
In 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator the most commercially successful seed-stage accelerator.
Altman announced in a 2014 blog post that the total valuation of all Y Combinator companies had surpassed $65 billion, including well-known companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits and Stripe.
Altman has stated that he hopes to grow Y Combinator so that it eventually funds 1,000 new companies per year. He has also increased the types of companies funded by YC, especially on so-called "hard technology" companies.
Chat with Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator!
Blitzscaling 02: Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, visits WashU Engineering
Lecture 2 - Team and Execution (Sam Altman)
Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION
Chat with Y Combinator's Sam Altman at Estimote (YC S13) office in Kraków, Poland
Fireside Chat - Sam Altman President, YCombinator and Mike Curtis, VP of Engineering, Airbnb
Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
How to Start a Hard Tech Startup with Sam Altman @ MIT
Sam Altman on how to get funded by Y Combinator
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This is session 2 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features John Lilly interviewing Y Combinator President Sam Altman.
Entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist, author, and blogger Sam Altman visited Washington University in St. Louis on Feb. 11. Sam Altman WashU alum Dave Messina, COO of Cofactor Genomics, joined Altman for a talk and Q&A; session on what it’s really like to start a startup. Throughout his career, Altman has been named Top Investor Under 30 by Forbes, one of the “Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology” by BusinessWeek, and one of the five most interesting startup founders between 1979 and 2009.
Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-2-ideas-products-teams-and-execution-part-ii-annotated Sam Altman finishes up "Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution" by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64031 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
The C.E.O. of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, and Y Combinator president Sam Altman foresee tech’s next innovations. Moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin, of The New York Times and CNBC. Still haven’t subscribed to Vanity Fair on YouTube? ►► http://vnty.fr/1yNomg4 CONNECT WITH VANITY FAIR Web: http://vanityfair.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanityfair Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanityfairmagazine Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/vanityfair Google+: https://plus.google.com/+vanityfair Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanityfair Tumblr: http://vanityfair.tumblr.com Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene ABOUT VANITY FAIR Arts and entertainment, business and media, politics, and world affairs—Vanity Fair’s features and exclusive videos ca...
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator on startups, AI, Basic Income Research, IoT, Engineering talent in Central Europe.
A conversation with Airbnb’s Mike Curtis and Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, and one of the youngest and best seed-stage investors today, as he discusses why “great products win,” why you should start with an idea and not a company, and building for what’s next.
Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64030 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, gives a talk at MIT on how to start a hard tech startup. Hear stories and get advice on developing the idea, forming a team, raising money from investors and more.
Hear Sam Altman speak about how to get funded by Y Combinator, the danger of some incubators, and other great startup advice.
http://StartupVoodoo.com - Y Combinator President Sam Altman held a fireside chat with journalist Tom Foremski about the fundamentals of building a startup, attracting venture capital, and more. About Startup Voodoo: Held annually in St. Louis, Startup Voodoo brings together thought leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the geographic center of the Midwest to uncover the voodoo behind innovation, successful startups, exchange best practices and ideas, as well as to create connections between the Midwest and coastal startup ecosystems.
Mike Bloomberg welcomed a crowd of over 150 tech community members, Cornell Tech graduate students, and Bloomberg's first monthly speaker series, featuring Y Combinator President Sam Altman. For Engineering / Tech Jobs: http://bit.ly/23gXZzd
Kim-Mai Cutler talks to Y Combinator's Sam Altman about the impact of tech on Bay area infrastructure, why a universal basic income might be a great idea, and getting tech involved in government. Subscribe to TechCrunch today: http://bit.ly/18J0X2e TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. Disrupt SF has an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, and celebrity guests.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits down with Y Combinator President Sam Altman to discuss some of the hardest decisions he's had to make since starting out at Facebook.
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How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014. Sam Altman is the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI. Dustin Moscovitz is the co-founder of Facebook. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana, a project management app.
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