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Greg Brockman

American software engineer; OpenAI's CTO at its 2015 launch, later its chairman and president.

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Gregory Brockman
Over time
  1. board member of OpenAI Feb 2018 – 17 Nov 2023
  2. chair of OpenAI Mar 2019 – 17 Nov 2023

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founded

  • OpenAI Dec 2015 CTO Primary record 1

chair of

  • OpenAI Mar 2019 – 17 Nov 2023 Primary record 23

board member of

  • OpenAI Feb 2018 – 17 Nov 2023 Primary record 345

invested in

  • Scale AI Primary record 6

    Index Ventures' 2018 release lists him among individual investors to that date and writes 'OpenAPI co-founder' (sic); the round, date and amount are not stated.

funded

  • OpenAI Dec 2015 donor Primary record 1
Timeline 4 dates
  1. Dec 2015 Greg Brockman founded OpenAI
  2. Dec 2015 Greg Brockman funded OpenAI
  3. Feb 2018 – 17 Nov 2023 Greg Brockman board member of OpenAI
  4. Mar 2019 – 17 Nov 2023 Greg Brockman chair of OpenAI
Proof 6 sources
  1. Introducing OpenAI, OpenAI, 11 Dec 2015. Primary record
    OpenAI's research director is Ilya Sutskever, one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group's other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists:
    Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.
  2. OpenAI LP, OpenAI, 11 Mar 2019. Primary record
    OpenAI Nonprofit’s board consists of OpenAI LP employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & CTO), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Holden Karnofsky, Reid Hoffman
  3. OpenAI announces leadership transition, OpenAI, 17 Nov 2023. Primary record
    As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.
    OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
  4. OpenAI Supporters, OpenAI, 20 Feb 2018. Primary record
    The Board is now Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Holden Karnofsky, and Sam Altman.
  5. Review completed & Altman, Brockman to continue to lead OpenAI, OpenAI, 8 Mar 2024. Primary record
    On December 8, 2023, the Special Committee retained WilmerHale to conduct a review of the events concerning the November 17, 2023 removal of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman from the OpenAI Board of Directors and Mr. Altman’s termination as CEO.
  6. Scale Announces $18 Million in Series B Funding Led by Index Ventures, Index Ventures, 7 Aug 2018. Primary record
    Individual investors included OpenAPI co-founder Greg Brockman, Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever, Jonathan Swanson, co-founder of Thumbtack, Xamarin co-founder Nat Friedman, ZEIT founder Guillermo Rauch and Parse co-founder Ilya Sukhar.
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