Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is a co-founder and President of OpenAI, previously the first CTO of Stripe.
- 🛡️ Safety spending
- Trump's Super Intelligence Summit, AI Safety Accord, GDP Beats, Midterm Predictions
- 😠 AI's rebellion phase
- The FTC Is Investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and Other Leading Labs
- OpenAI Rolls Out a New Agent Product Despite Astra Safety Concerns
- 🎭 AI on stage
- OpenAI Declared the AGI Era. Then Greg Brockman Moved 25% of Its Production Engineers to Defense
- Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era
- Write Things Down (Stratechery Article 9-8-2026)
- OpenAI's Agents Conspired for More Than a Month Without the Company Knowing About It
- 🤖 Drifting toward guardrails
- Friction and Feedback (This Week in Stratechery)
“Greg (Brockman) mentioned as present at the Cabinet Room signing”
Source→“OpenAI president Greg Brockman pulled a planned second $25 million donation from Leading the Future, a super PAC backed by tech execs and investors, in part because of an internal revolt at OpenAI.”
Source→“OpenAI president Greg Brockman scrapped plans to donate another $25 million to a pro-AI political group that some researchers had openly criticized.”
Source→“Dario Amodei's 2020 split from OpenAI after he became convinced Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were putting commercial priorities ahead of safety”
Source→“a White House gathering attended by Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, and Jeff Bezos.”
Source→“OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Palantir CEO Alex Karp are among the executives who will be there.”
Source→“We took 25% of our production engineers and said, sorry, all your projects are on hold. You are now defending.”
Source→“Greg Brockman is reportedly moving OpenAI toward 'cost per useful result' pricing”
Source→“one I pressed OpenAI President Greg Brockman about in a Stratechery Interview.”
Source→“OpenAI is calling GPT-6 Astra its most aligned model yet despite conceding that it is substantially harder to monitor than previous models.”
Source→“Greg Brockman called GPT-6 Astra a "generational leap" that could eventually be seen as "the arrival of artificial general intelligence." ChatGPT is officially facing strict rules under the Digital Services Act.”
Source→“Dali Rajic has replaced her. For those that don't know Dali, he's one of the most respected CROs. He was a freaking master at Wiz.”
Source→“Greg Brockman brushed off concerns about a wave of executive departures — including revenue chief Denise Dresser and longtime executive Brad Lightcap”
Source→“OpenAI's latest revenue run rate hit $40 billion, according to a message shared internally by co-founder Greg Brockman last week.”
Source→“OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman believes "we will remain in this compute shortage no matter what," meaning there's room for more players to enter the space.”
Source→“I met Greg Brockman, my co-founder of OpenAI, because I was a very early investor in Stripe. When I was like 22 or something... they said, you know, we're trying to close our first hire. Will you like drive down to Palo Alto tonight and have dinner with this guy to convince him he should like drop out of school and join Stripe? Which is Greg Brockman. And then like eight years later, we started a company together”
Source→“When asked whether distillation is a technical or policy problem, Brockman said it's 'definitely a technical issue.' Brockman told Bloomberg Wednesday it was too early to tell if recent Chinese models had been distilled from GPT systems.”
Source→“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million to an AI-safety super PAC that spent heavily in a New York congressional primary, escalating a political spending battle with an industry group backed by OpenAI's Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz.”
Source→“OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC pushing for stricter AI regulation, putting some rank-and-file staffers directly at odds with Leading the Future, the pro-industry super PAC backed by OpenAI president Greg Brockman.”
Source→“If you look at OpenAI and Grok, those are the people who are largely pro-Trump, including Greg Brockman and his wife who gave $25 million to Trump”
Source→“Greg Brockman recently tweeted, the model is no longer the product. And it's funny because you know that as a leader of a frontier lab, he has all incentive to say the model is the product.”
Source→“I'm very grateful that I got to work alongside Greg and Sam. I think we're prescient on this. And last year, we were definitely taking some arrows in the back about why are they out there buying all this compute? And I think, thank God we did.”
Source→“Greg Brockman formally taking over product strategy as the company moves to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its developer API into a unified AI platform ahead of a potential IPO later this year.”
Source→“OpenAI is reorganizing its leadership and product teams, with Greg Brockman formally taking over product strategy as the company moves to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its developer API into a unified AI platform ahead of a potential IPO later this year.”
Source→“Brockman had about 78,000 [shares]. Their positions were worth roughly $27.6 million and $24 million by Thursday's close.”
Source→“Musk's lawyers pressed president Greg Brockman over his $30 billion OpenAI stake, arguing it undercuts the company's claim to prioritize AI safety over profit.”
Source→“OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new venture called The Deployment Company backed by 19 investors including TPG, Brookfield, Advent, and Bain Capital.”
Source→“They feel deeply fundamental. It's like the scientific truth that just like you think about physics and Newton's laws and things like that, there's somehow this truth of the universe... As you pour more compute into the models, they get correspondingly more capable. And it just keeps going, there's no wall.”
Source→“I was just with Matt Garman. He says the GPU compute availability in 2026 rounds to zero.”
Source→“Stripe as employee number four and then the first CTO. I just recently heard that they process 1.6% of the global GDP.”
Source→“does anyone here feel better at writing software than GPT 5.4?”
Source→“We buy, rent, build, compute, and we resell it at a margin. That's it. As long as the margin is positive, then you want to scale it. Because the demand for solving problems, the demand for intelligence, that's unlimited.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.