Sam Altman said his lack of equity in OpenAI, the $27 billion company he cofounded and helms as CEO, doesn't bother him because he already has "enough money." But the 38-year old techie acknowledged that being the world's unofficial A.I. kingpin comes with plenty of other perks.
"I still get a lot of selfish benefit from this," Altman said Thursday at the Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco, in response to a question about having no ownership stake in the artificial intelligence startup he helped establish. Altman said that leading OpenAI provides advantages like having "impact," having access that puts him "in the room for interesting conversations," and having an "interesting life."
