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1. A Student’s Guide To Startups

2. Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he’s rebounded to greater heights

3. https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-yc-board-of-overseers

4. Altman’s polarizing past hints at OpenAI board’s reason for firing him: Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator, part of a pattern of clashes that some attribute to his self-serving approach

5. Wikipedia Bibliography:

   1. Sam Altman

   2. Paul Graham (programmer)

   3. Y Combinator

   4. Stripe, Inc

   5. Patrick Collison

   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor

   7. Peter Thiel

   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingston  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingston

   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt

   10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare_(company)  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare_(company)

   11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Corporation  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Corporation

   12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_Mobile_(United_States)  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_Mobile_(United_States)

   13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextel  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextel

   14. Global Positioning System

   15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_(mobile_network)  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_(mobile_network)

   16. AT&T

   17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_Corporation  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_Corporation

   18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Enterprise_Associates  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Enterprise_Associates

   19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital  :

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital