Greg Brockman

Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder[1] and president of OpenAI.[2] He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became CTO[3] in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015[4] to co-found OpenAI, where he also served as CTO.[5][6][7] Brockman was born in Thompson, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School, where he excelled in mathematics, chemistry, and computer science.[5][8] He won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad[9] and became the first finalist from North Dakota to participate in the Intel science talent search since 1973.[10] In 2003, 2005, and 2007, he attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students.[11] In 2008, Brockman enrolled at Harvard University but left a year later, briefly enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5][12] In 2010, he dropped out of MIT to join Stripe, a company founded by Patrick Collison, his MIT classmate, and John Collison. In 2013, he became Stripe's first CTO, while the company grew from 5 to 205 employees.[7][13] Brockman left Stripe in May 2015.[13] Brockman met with Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and led the recruiting of the OpenAI founding team. Many of its members, including Ilya Sutskever, were top AI research talent that left high paying jobs for the opportunity at OpenAI.[14][15] He co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 alongside Altman, Sutskever and others.[16] The company initially operated from Brockman's living room.[17] He led various projects at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot.[18][19]