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2. OpenAI Investors Keep Pushing for Sam Altman’s Return

3. Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace: The company’s CEO is back with near-unanimous employee support—and with thorny governance issues to address

4. Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley?

5. Scariest Sociopaths

6. Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker: Meet the guy taking the reins of the influential startup program Y Combinator from its longtime leader, Paul Graham

7. 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

8. https://openai.com/index/review-completed-altman-brockman-to-continue-to-lead-openai/

9. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384090

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11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190310003417/https://blog.ycombinator.com/updates-from-yc/

12. Sam Altman is a hero of mine

13. https://x.com/sama/status/1726099792600903681

14. OpenAI closes $300m share sale at $27b–29b valuation

15. How Sam Altman Got Loopt Investment

16. Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies

17. The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI

18. https://x.com/hlntnr/status/1727207796456751615

19. Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age: OpenAI’s CEO thinks he knows our future. What do we know about him?

20. The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader: The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge & pushing technology to dystopia

21. OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO: With the ousted OpenAI CEO actively discussing a new artificial intelligence venture, investors in his previous company are trying to bring him back using Microsoft and key employees as leverage

22. Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster: Altman was fundraising in the Middle East for new chip venture; The project, code-named Tigris, is intended to rival Nvidia

23. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI: The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new AI systems

24. Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’

25. OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO’s abrupt firing

26. Y Combinator = Growth: YC President Geoff Ralston says he isn’t worried about the competition

27. Here’s the truth about this weekend’s PR wars

28. Wikipedia Bibliography:

    1. Sam Altman

    2. Y Combinator

    3. Paul Graham (programmer)

    4. OpenAI

    5. Airbnb

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

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

    7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Conway  :

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

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

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

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

    10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thie  :

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

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

    12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quora  :

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    13. Adam D'Angelo

    14. Bret Taylor

    15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce  :

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    16. Twitter

    17. Elon Musk

    18. Lawrence Summers

    19. Helen Toner