Altman, 39, and his husband live in San Francisco; they are reportedly worth at least $2 billion.
FILE – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in the “Technology in a turbulent world” panel discussion during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband have become the newest billionaires to sign the Giving Pledge, a charity that encourages the ultra-rich to donate their wealth to philanthropic causes.
“There is nothing we can do except feel immense gratitude and commit to pay it forward, and do what we can to build the scaffolding up a little higher,” the pair said. Bloomberg reports that Altman, 39, is worth at least $2 billion, with much of his wealth drawn from startup investments, including a sizable investment in Reddit. He doesn’t have a stake in OpenAI, the tech company that’s at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
Altman and Mulherin live in San Francisco and reportedly also have homes in Napa Valley and Hawaii. They were married in January.was started in 2010 by billionaires Warren Buffett and the formerly married couple, Bill and Melinda French Gates, to get the world’s wealthiest to commit to donating at least half of their fortunes to charities and philanthropic causes either during their lifetimes or in their wills.
The pledge isn’t a legally binding contract, but more of a moral commitment. The campaign’s intention is to “inspire conversations, discussions, and action, not just about how much but also for what purposes and to what end,” according to theEarlier Tuesday, French Gates, who is one of the world’s wealthiest and most prominent philanthropists, announced that she wasShe recently resigned from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this month following her divorce from Bill.
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