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I've read that Sam Altman's net worth has ballooned from hundreds of millions (mostly tied up in Helion) while at OpenAI to billions, and that despite all his protestations of not making a penny from OpenAI, he also has/had a $10M investment in the (~100x profit capped) for-profit part of OpenAI...

Given Altman's slippery relationship with the truth, I have to wonder if his sudden significant increase in wealth, if true, is due to having participated in an early "liquidity event" as the article describes. Did he sell part of his shares to Microsoft, perhaps ?



He was rich before ... he has a couple of villas




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