Ex-colleague says Sam Altman aspired to be 'a great man of history' like Churchill or Napoleon
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-10
Garrison Lovely, author of the new book Obsolete, shares that while Sam Altman told Vanity Fair he doesn't think about how history will judge him, a former senior colleague described Altman as aspiring to be "a great man of history" — not Jobs-scale, but Churchill or Napoleon, someone who shapes "the century or the millennium." The post also promotes the book on the AI industry's trillion-dollar race and its risks, published by OR Books & Nation Books.
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