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Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman's file: OpenAI co-founding, model training, infrastructure, company power, and the engineering operation behind the lab's biggest bets.
Brockman went from Stripe's CTO to co-founding OpenAI, helped redesign its capital structure, became president while staying close to model training, survived the 2023 board rupture, and returned from leave to tackle the lab's biggest technical problems.
HOW THE HELL DID GREG BROCKMAN GET HERE?
Dec 11, 2015
HE HELPS LAUNCH OPENAI AS ITS CTO
OpenAI launched as a nonprofit research company with Brockman as CTO and one of the founding organizers behind the new lab.
RECEIPTS: OpenAIfirst-party
Mar 11, 2019
HE HELPS REWIRE OPENAI TO RAISE BILLIONS
Brockman and Ilya Sutskever announced OpenAI LP, a capped-profit structure designed to raise the enormous amounts of capital and compute they said frontier AI would require.
RECEIPTS: OpenAIfirst-party
May 5, 2022
OPENAI MAKES HIM PRESIDENT
OpenAI moved Brockman into a new president role combining company strategy with direct technical work on training the lab's flagship systems.
RECEIPTS: OpenAIfirst-party
Nov 17, 2023 – Nov 29, 2023
THE BOARD CRISIS KNOCKS HIM OUT — THEN HE COMES BACK
OpenAI removed Brockman from the board during Sam Altman's ouster; less than two weeks later the company announced Brockman was back as president alongside Altman's return as CEO.
Nov 12, 2024
HE RETURNS FROM LEAVE FOR THE BIG TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
After a roughly three-month leave, Brockman returned to OpenAI while he and Altman worked out a role focused on major technical challenges.
RECEIPTS: Reutersreported