OpenAI’s Sam Altman on taking risks: ‘Traditional careers may not work anymore’

Sam Altman- now OpenAI CEO- dropped out of Stanford to build Loopt, a location-based social networking app before co-founding the ChatGPT maker. In an interview, he said that at the time it “seemed like a really fun thing to try” as he could afford to take the risk because he could always go resume his education if things didn’t work out.