Greg Brockman
President, OpenAI
OpenAI's president dropped out of MIT in 2010 to join Stripe, and became the payments company's first CTO in 2013.
- Born
- 1987-11-29, Thompson, North Dakota, United States
- Now
- President and co-founder, OpenAI
- Studied
- MIT, Harvard University
Interesting facts
- Early start
Won a silver medal at the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad while in high school in North Dakota.
gregbrockman.com - Early start
His high school math paper on Ducci sequences placed 6th in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search.
gregbrockman.com - Turning point
Only started programming seriously in a gap year after high school, after reading Alan Turing's paper on computing machinery and intelligence.
blog.gregbrockman.com - Numbers
Dropped out of MIT to join Stripe as an early engineer and, as CTO, helped it grow from 4 people to about 250.
gregbrockman.com - Connection
OpenAI began as an idea over an August 2015 dinner with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Brockman and a few others.
blog.gregbrockman.com - In their words
Wrote that for OpenAI's first three years he wanted to become a machine learning expert but made little progress.
blog.gregbrockman.com
Career
- OpenAIPresident and co-founder2015 to now
- StripeCTO2010–2015
Education
- Attended, left without a degree, Computer science, MIT, 2010
- Attended, left without a degree, Mathematics and computer science, Harvard University, 2009
