2024 Xfund Experiment Cup Award Ceremony honoring Sam Altman

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 3pm

Sam Altman

About this Event

Harvard University

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#SamAltman, PatrickChung, XfundExperiementCup

Xfund, HBS, and SEAS are proud to welcome The 2024 Xfund Experiment Cup recipient Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of Open AI, in conversation with his first investor Xfund’s Patrick Chung. The Experiment Cup is awarded by Xfund to extraordinary founders from the world’s best universities. Learn more about Xfund at www.xfund.com.

Co-hosted by Harvard Business School's Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and Xfund.

Event Details

Event Type

Colloquia / Seminar / Lecture

Audience

Alumni Faculty Graduate Students Researchers / Postdocs Staff Undergraduate Students Harvard Community SEAS Community

Tags

OpenAI SamAltman PatrickChung Xfund ExperimentCup 2024Recipient

Hashtag

#SamAltman, PatrickChung, XfundExperiementCup

Speaker Bio

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E. Sam was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, Sam co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. The company remains governed by the nonprofit and its original charter today.

Patrick Chung, an experienced investor, serves as managing general partner of Xfund, the early-stage venture capital firm that was established to invest in outstanding founders affiliated with Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the other leading universities of the world. Chung holds a joint JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He earned honors in both programs and served as editor of the Harvard Law Review. In addition, he attended Oxford University as a Commonwealth Scholar and earned an MSc. Patrick Chung received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Harvard.

Host

Co-hosted by Harvard Business School's Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and Xfund