# An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

<https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sam-altman-about-building-a-consumer-tech-company/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Deep interview with Sam Altman from the very astute Ben Thompson. Includes background on Altman and the origin story back to OpenAI and Altman's thoughts on Y Combinator and building ChatGPT.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT314: Weekly Thing 314 / Interfaces, π, Bubbles](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/314/), Notable

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