# John Schulman: founder, OpenAI

Canonical ID: `f6559e1d-2f3f-4477-9336-4caa9d86c7d0`

Co-founder and chief scientist of [Thinking Machines Lab](/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md); [OpenAI](/companies/openai.md) co-founder who helped build ChatGPT.

- **Verification posture:** reported

## Foundings (2)

- [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) founded 2015-12-11 (cofounder) _no longer at company_
- [Thinking Machines Lab](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md) (cofounder)

See all founders: [/founders](https://registry.deploy.report/founders.md)

## Co-founders (14)

- [Greg Brockman](https://registry.deploy.report/people/greg-brockman.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Wojciech Zaremba](https://registry.deploy.report/people/wojciech-zaremba.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Andrej Karpathy](https://registry.deploy.report/people/andrej-karpathy.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Durk Kingma](https://registry.deploy.report/people/durk-kingma.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Trevor Blackwell](https://registry.deploy.report/people/trevor-blackwell.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Vicki Cheung](https://registry.deploy.report/people/vicki-cheung.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Pamela Vagata](https://registry.deploy.report/people/pamela-vagata.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Ilya Sutskever](https://registry.deploy.report/people/ilya-sutskever.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Mira Murati](https://registry.deploy.report/people/mira-murati.md) co-founded [Thinking Machines Lab](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md)
- [Barret Zoph](https://registry.deploy.report/people/barret-zoph.md) co-founded [Thinking Machines Lab](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md)
- [Lilian Weng](https://registry.deploy.report/people/lilian-weng.md) co-founded [Thinking Machines Lab](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md)
- [Andrew Tulloch](https://registry.deploy.report/people/andrew-tulloch.md) co-founded [Thinking Machines Lab](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md)
- [Luke Metz](https://registry.deploy.report/people/luke-metz.md) co-founded [Thinking Machines Lab](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/thinking-machines-lab.md)
- [Sam Altman](https://registry.deploy.report/people/sam-altman.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md)

## Sources (2)

1. https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-mira-murati-funding/ · 2025-07-15
2. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ · 2015-12-11


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