Greg Brockman, now a central decision-maker at OpenAI, has a long history in the tech industry. He dropped out of MIT to become Stripe's CTO during its early growth phase before co-founding OpenAI in 2015.
“You know, he dropped out of MIT to join Stripe, way back in the day, and then he was Stripe's CTO during its really early explosive growth phase.”
Haydenfield
“So he left in 2015 to co-found OpenAI.”
Haydenfield
“That's kind of how he came on the AI radar.”
Haydenfield
Heard on Decoder with Nilay Patel — “OpenAI's executive exodus has one big winner”, published Thursday, August 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.