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TIL that Sam Altman has considerably more personal wealth than I would have guessed, if I'd ever been inclined to guess. Anyway, this is very cool. Exactly the
by waterlesscloud 11y ago
TIL that Sam Altman has considerably more personal wealth than I would have guessed, if I'd ever been inclined to guess.
Anyway, this is very cool. Exactly the sort of thing that needs to happen to push the world forward in deeper ways. I'll be very curious to see what sort of teams they put together and just how fundamental and long term and heretical they go with their research.
- seiji 11y agoIf every poster here had their net worth attached to their username, you'd probably cry. We all realize founders maintain "a lot more" equity than employees, but it's almost like our brains aren't wired to recognize, remember, or rationalize how some people get really really rewarded more than others. With Sam being grand poobah of YC, he's on a life track to being a liquid-capable multibillionaire within 5-10 years after the current unicornpalooza goes through a few rounds of lofty exits. My propositions for SF to require all equity-exited techies to tattoo their net worth on their foreheads keeps getting shot down by anonymous "concerned citizens."
- samstave 11y agoHAHA - I thought the same thing. I ACTUALLY scrolled back up to the top of the article to see if it was truly posted by him after reading that line....
- vanessa98 11y agoDitto - would love to hear how he went from Loopt to that kind of wealth!
- quickpost 11y agoLooks like he was an angel investor in a lot of BIG startups, so not too surprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Pre-YC_angel_investing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Pre-YC_angel_invest...