Sam Altman & Jony Ive

Sam Altman

Co-Founder & CEO, OpenAI

Sam Altman is the Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT. 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.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Jony Ive

Founder, LoveFrom

Jony Ive is a designer.

Born in London, he moved to California in 1992 to join Apple. As Chief Design Officer, he was responsible for the design of hardware, user interface, packaging, and major architectural projects.

Steve Jobs described Jony as his spiritual partner saying, “The difference that Jony has made not only at Apple but in the world is huge.” Their unique partnership defined a profound and enduring cultural legacy.

Jony led the design of iconic and category-defining products including the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. He holds more than 14,300 design and utility patents, uniquely spanning both hardware and software. He was awarded the Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2004, and was described as “one of the most influential individuals in modern technology” when presented with the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship in 2019. Jony holds honorary doctorates from distinguished universities including Cambridge, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art, where he currently serves as Chancellor. He was knighted at Buckingham Palace in 2012. In 2019 he founded the creative collective LoveFrom with his friend and fellow designer Marc Newson. In 2024 he co-founded io, an engineering and product development company committed to creating AI-enabled products, in close collaboration with both LoveFrom and OpenAI.

Jony lives and works with his family in San Francisco.

About LoveFrom

LoveFrom is a creative collective founded in 2019 by Jony with his friend and fellow designer Marc Newson. The group includes architects, artists, engineers, filmmakers, graphic designers, industrial designers, interaction designers, motion designers, musicians, type designers, sound designers, and writers.