Sam Altman ☆

Altman turned OpenAI from research lab to the fastest-growing product company in history, survived his own board's attempt to fire him (November 2023), and then scaled ambition to the infrastructure itself: Stargate, trillion-dollar compute talk, deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom and Oracle at once. His personal bets extend the thesis — Oklo (fission), Helion (fusion), and hardware with Jony Ive.