Greg Brockman

Gregory Brockman, born November 29, 1987, is an American entrepreneur and software engineer who has become one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI, the organization responsible for developing some of the world's most advanced AI systems. Brockman has been outspoken about using AI to benefit society and developing new methods for AI safety.

Brockman attended Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), intending to double-major in mathematics and computer science, before dropping out in 2010. As a high school student, he won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad and his paper 'Asymptotic Behavior of Certain Ducci Sequences' won 6th place in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search. His early academic excellence marked him as a science prodigy from Thompson, North Dakota.

Career History

• 2010-2015: Stripe – Co-founder and first CTO, grew company from 5 to 205 employees
• 2015-2023: OpenAI – Co-founder and CTO, later President
• November 2023: Brief tenure at Microsoft (alongside Sam Altman, within days)
• 2023-present: OpenAI – President, leading infrastructure and partnerships

At Stripe, Brockman joined in 2010 as one of the earliest employees and became the company's first CTO in 2013, helping scale the payments platform to over 200 staff. He left Stripe in May 2015 to co-found OpenAI alongside Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Ilya Sutskever. Brockman led recruiting for OpenAI's founding team, bringing in top AI research talent. He led various projects at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot. On March 14, 2023, Brockman unveiled GPT-4 in a live video demo. Brockman works 60 to 100 hours per week and spends around 80% of his time coding; former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at OpenAI.

What Greg Brockman could bring to his role as President at OpenAI: Brockman's proven track record as a technical operator and executor makes him uniquely positioned to realize OpenAI's infrastructure ambitions. He is the executive leading OpenAI's aggressive infrastructure build-out, a project to which it has already committed roughly $1.4 trillion to deploying the equivalent of 30 gigawatts of compute capacity. AMD CEO Lisa Su highlighted that Brockman's insistence on thinking big was essential to partnership negotiations, noting his 'maniacal focus on ensuring there's enough compute in this world'. His deep technical expertise, combined with his ability to recruit and scale world-class teams—demonstrated at both Stripe and OpenAI—positions him as the operational force behind the company's vision of building transformative AI infrastructure at unprecedented scale.