Digging more into the history of the Altman family reveals that they Sam and his brothers Max and Jack, are all dyed-in-the-wool Technocrats. Sam is leading the pack as far as a public face is concerned.
Don’t take Sam Altman as some kind of computer genius - he is NOT. Rather, he is a venture capitalist. Nothing more, nothing less.
In fact, he dropped out of Stanford after his freshman year to dive into the tech world. That’s right. One year of college. Basically no formal education.