Altman notably owns no equity in OpenAI and has historically taken a salary of roughly $76,000 a year. Even so, Altman has amassed a net worth of more than $3.3 billion, and in a recent interview, Altman credited venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Paul Graham with teaching him the investing philosophy that helped shape his multibillion-dollar portfolio. Altman has said that Graham taught him that being a startup investor is “like being a flight instructor.” The fund’s largest outside investor was billionaire Peter Thiel, who cofounded PayPal and Palantir and was Facebook’s first outside investor. The post Sam Altman reveals the investing advice billionaire Peter Thiel gave him that helped him amass a $3.3 billion net worth without OpenAI equity appeared first on Fortune.