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Sam Altman

Named behind 16 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder, OpenAI

Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and has been its CEO since 2019. He previously co-founded Loopt, a location-based social app that Green Dot acquired in 2012, and was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019.

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SoftBank Thrive Capital Microsoft NVIDIA Altimeter Capital Coatue Khosla Ventures Fidelity Investments MGX Tiger Global

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Who is Sam Altman?

Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and has been its CEO since 2019. He previously co-founded Loopt, a location-based social app that Green Dot acquired in 2012, and was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019.

What does OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI make?

Anchor Terminal lists Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), GPT-Live, gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, OpenAI Agents SDK, OpenAI API, OpenAI Codex, OpenAI Decisions API, Dots, OpenAI embeddings, OpenAI Guardrails, OpenAI Image API, OpenAI Moderation API, OpenAI Realtime API, OpenAI Sora API and OpenAI Speech to Text from OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI. Open checkout spec from OpenAI and Stripe (2025-09-29).

Who has invested in OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI?

The sources our research read name SoftBank, Thrive Capital, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Altimeter Capital, Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Fidelity Investments, MGX and Tiger Global.

How are Sam's tools graded?

Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is graded C, 61.3 out of 100; GPT-Live is graded B, 66.9 out of 100; gpt-oss-120b is graded BB, 70.2 out of 100; gpt-oss-20b is graded B, 69.9 out of 100; OpenAI Agents SDK is graded AA, 86.2 out of 100; OpenAI API is graded A, 82.9 out of 100; OpenAI Codex is graded BB, 73.5 out of 100; OpenAI Decisions API is graded BB, 73.1 out of 100; Dots is graded F, 28.8 out of 100; OpenAI embeddings is graded BB, 72.2 out of 100; OpenAI Guardrails is graded B, 69.5 out of 100; OpenAI Image API is graded BB, 72.4 out of 100; OpenAI Moderation API is graded BB, 71.4 out of 100; OpenAI Realtime API is graded B, 63.4 out of 100; OpenAI Sora API is graded F, 9.4 out of 100; OpenAI Speech to Text is graded BB, 72.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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