Altman, as is known, does not have capital in OpenAI, but investments in startups such as Reddit, Stripe, and Helion still secured him a place on the Forbes billionaire ranking.
At the top of the list are the owner of the luxury goods company LVMH, Bernard Arnault, the head of Tesla, Elon Musk, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and the head of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg.
Sam Altman became the face of the AI boom when his company released ChatGPT in 2022 - however, his billionaire status is not due to OpenAI, but to smart investments in companies like Reddit, which was recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and the payment company Stripe, which is now valued at $65 billion.
The 36-year-old entrepreneur also invested in promising new ventures - for example, the nuclear energy company Helion and the startup Retro Biosciences, which is working on a technology that can extend a person's life by 10 years.
Altman is also involved in the Worldcoin project - a month ago, the project's main cryptocurrency token reached an all-time high of $11.82, and over the past year, it has grown by a total of 337.35%. Worldcoin is ready to provide every person on the planet with a digital identity and a certain amount of cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data.
OpenAI - the company that made Sam Altman famous - is now valued at $80 billion. Last year, he survived a leadership shake-up at the startup - and almost lost his CEO position if it weren't for Microsoft's intervention. Altman and OpenAI are also trying to deal with lawsuits from Elon Musk - who was a co-founder of the company and now claims that it has deviated from its goal of "serving humanity's best interests" and instead focused on making money.
In 2023, Altman made it into Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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