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OpenAI

The AI Era · 2020s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.

The legends

Sam Altman — The Startup Whisperer

Co-founder & CEO

Ran Y Combinator, then turned a research lab into a household name overnight.

Ran Y Combinator
Dropped out of Stanford

Greg Brockman — Codes Through the Night

Ilya Sutskever — Deep-Learning Pioneer

Mira Murati — Shipped ChatGPT

Brad Lightcap — The Deal Closer

John Schulman — Co-Invented RLHF

Elon Musk — Co-Founder Who Walked

A generational founder elsewhere — but here he funded, feuded, and left.

Also on the roster

Bob McGrew · Wojciech Zaremba · Jakub Pachocki · Reid Hoffman · Microsoft · Khosla Ventures

When OpenAI lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?

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