# Greg Brockman

President, OpenAI. TIME100 AI 2026, Leaders. OpenAI's president dropped out of MIT in 2010 to join Stripe, and became the payments company's first CTO in 2013. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman))

- Born: 1987-11-29, Thompson, North Dakota, United States ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman))
- Education: attended, no degree, Computer science, MIT, 2010; attended, no degree, Mathematics and computer science, Harvard University, 2009 ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegdb), [ai.engineer](https://ai.engineer/speakers/greg-brockman))
- Career: OpenAI (President and co-founder, 2015 to now); Stripe (CTO, 2010–2015) ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman), [ai.engineer](https://ai.engineer/speakers/greg-brockman), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegdb))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mark-chen-sam-altman-greg-brockman/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/greg-brockman

- Won a silver medal at the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad while in high school in North Dakota. ([gregbrockman.com](https://gregbrockman.com/))
- His high school math paper on Ducci sequences placed 6th in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search. ([gregbrockman.com](https://gregbrockman.com/))
- 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](https://blog.gregbrockman.com))
- 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](https://gregbrockman.com/))
- 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](https://blog.gregbrockman.com))
- Wrote that for OpenAI's first three years he wanted to become a machine learning expert but made little progress. ([blog.gregbrockman.com](https://blog.gregbrockman.com))