Chat GPT is taking center stage these days. Chat GPT, which was launched in November 2022, has created a blizzard on the internet with its overwhelming performance. Sam Altman, the CAH person of the month, is the CEO of OpenAI, the company that made the now-inevitable chatbot ChatGPT. Let’s get to know about Sam Altman’s life, achievments, and distinct philosophy, who is grabbing the headlines these days.

1. Who Is Sam Altman?
    Sam Altman was born on April 22nd, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in a Jewish household. When he received his very first computer as a birthday present, he was amazed enough to comment that, “It was this dividing line in my life”, and he began studying programming at the age of eight. After graduating from John Burroughs School, he went on to study computer science at Stanford University, but dropped out in 2005. He said he dropped out of Stanford and started a business because there was no “tall poppy syndrome” in Silicon Valley, a region that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Later. Sam began his career as a programmer and entrepreneur by co-founding Loopt, a company that provides a service for smartphone users to share their location with others, with his friends. In 2011, he joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, as a partner. Later, in 2014, he was appointed president by co-founder Paul Graham and help them earn huge profits. He said that in 2014, the total value of Y Combinator exceeded $65 billion. In recognition of his achievements, he was nominated as the top investor under 30 by Forbes magazine in 2015. These days however, he is currently attracting attention as an OpenAI founder and programmer, but he is also a famous entrepreneur who made initial investments in more than 2,000 companies from 2014 to 2019 as the CEO of Y Combinator. On December 11th, 2015, he founded OpenAI with Elon Musk and left Y Combinator in 2019 to fully focus on it. Since then, he has been attracting attention by introducing innovative IT technologies such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT.

2. Sam Altman as a Philanthropist 
    He is also a well-known philanthropist. The Y Combinator’s Fellowship Program, which he launched in 2015, is a program that provides funding to startups led by marginalized groups, such as women and people of color, in the tech industry. He tried to provide opportunities for these people exposed to poor working conditions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Altman helped fund and establish Project Covalence to help researchers quickly start clinical trials by collaborating with TrialSpark, a clinical research provider. Moreover, in 2020, Altman co-founded Worldcoin to provide digital money and iris recognition systems to everyone on the planet for free. Even now, with Blockchain and and NFT technology dominating the industry, he believes that the reason why only 3% of the world’s population owns cryptocurrency is due to technological barriers. Therefore, he tried to make digital currency freely available to everyone, not just the economically privileged. Although the project was suspended in 2022 due to iris scanning regulatory issues, people were able to get a glimpse of his philosophy emphasizing freedom and equality. Moreover, in March 2023, he provided capital to the startups that had been forced to lay off workers or shut down completely due to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

3. Beliefs and Philosophies
    “One of a kind” cannot be left out when discussing Altman’s beliefs. Sam Altman made many blog posts, and wrote about his unshakable faith and standards. His blog posts leave us with considerable room for improvement. “Being misunderstood by most people is a strength not a weakness.” Altman came out when he was a teenager. He evaluates minorities as beings who can solve problems that cannot be solved by ordinary methods and says that his identity as a gay man haspositively  contributed to his career. The life he faced as an LGBTQ person gave him the confidence to overcome adversity and prejudice. He also said that the secret to his success is to always “Make it easy to take risks.” In “How To Be Successful,” written in 2019, Altman says: value comes from believing in yourself, and he advises finding a balance between self-belief and self-awareness. He also says that entrepreneurship comes from optimism. “I will fail many times, and I will be really right once is the entrepreneur’s way.” Furthermore, he emphasizes the importance of networking, saying that no one succeeds alone. “If you are successful, it's almost always because some people went out of their way to help you. You have a moral obligation to pay it forward.” As such, he is a person with very distinct philosophies and beliefs.

Altman is a person who seeks to establish an optimistic future with capital, pursuing his convictions, freedom, and innovation. He is interested in human beings and society, and wants to contribute to the construction of a utopia by investing in his own way. His candid and direct social statements sometimes provoked controversy. However, his advice serves as a stepping stone to building our own future as people living in modern society. Altman has been named one of the 100 most influential people of 2023 by TIME magazine. Attention is focused on the direction he will take in the future.