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5 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2010
Greg Brockman dropped out of MIT in 2010 to become Stripe's first engineer, later became its CTO, and co-founded OpenAI in 2015.
“Greg, in 2010, dropped out of MIT to become our first engineer and went on to become Stripe's CTO. In 2015, after he left, he co-founded OpenAI.”
2017
John Collison says that in 2017, on the way to Camp YC, Brockman told him AGI was two or three years away.
“Do you remember we were going to Camp YC in 2017 and I asked you how far AGI was away and you said two or three years.”
2018
In 2018 an OpenAI board member told Brockman that near-term AGI would imply massive economic value from AI already, which Brockman called a fair criticism then.
“In a world with the near-term AGI, you would expect massive economic value to be delivered by AI already.”
2027
Sarah Guo says OpenAI's Greg Brockman told the No Priors podcast he expects spending on tokens for security to match engineering spend in 2027.
“he said that he thought in 2027, people were gonna spend as much money on tokens for security as engineering.”
Undated
Brockman began taking classes at the University of North Dakota while still in high school.
“Well, so I did in high school start going to the University of North Dakota and took a bunch of classes there.”
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