Sam Altman is logged into this Bengaluru startup’s Slack workspace: ‘Amazing story’

The Bengaluru-based founder and CEO of SuperKalam has revealed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is logged into their company’s Slack workspace.

Updated on: Jun 27, 2024, 14:04:49 IST

By Sanya Jain

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The Bengaluru-based founder and CEO of SuperKalam has revealed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is logged into their company’s Slack workspace. In a post shared on the social media platform X, Vimal Singh Rathore said that Altman’s presence is enough to keep him motivated at work.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. (Bloomberg)

“We have Sam Altman on our Slack workspace. Seeing him online itself makes me work harder all the time. Amazing story,” wrote the CEO of SuperKalam, a platform which provides AI-backed mentors to students.

Take a look at his post below:

Rathore, a Y Combinator alum, acknowledged in the comments section that not many startup founders have the kind of accessibility he does to Altman. He did not expressly state how the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI came to be a part of their workspace. In response to a user’s query, Rathore replied: “We worked with OpenAI team since early days, so maybe they were kind to give us that kind of access.”

SuperKalam leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4, and GPT-3.5 to deliver personalised learning experiences to UPSC aspirants, according to Analytics India magazine.

(Also read: Sam Altman's response to Indian techie who messaged him on Instagram: ‘It worked’)

In June last year, Rathore became one of the few people who got an opportunity to meet Sam Altman during his trip to India. He was part of an event with developers at IIIT-Delhi.

“Thrilled to meet @sama in person,” he wrote on X, sharing a picture of the 39-year-old CEO of OpenAI. “Equally exciting is to be building in AI.”

A few weeks later, he shared a video of another event with Altman, this one taken during the Y Combinator alumni meet.

(Also read: Throwback photo of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Emmett Shear from Y Combinator class)

Vimal Singh Rathore started SuperKalam in July 2023 along with Aseem Gupta. The startup is backed by Y Combinator, Google for Startups, Good Water Capital, FundersClub, Titan Cap, AngelList, iSeed, Kunal Shah (CRED), Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Dan Reich, Sujeet (Udaan), Tanmay Bhat, according to his LinkedIn profile.

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Sanya Jain is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Digital. She has nearly a decade of experience in covering offbeat stories that speak to the everyday experience - from viral videos to human interest copies that spark conversation. Her interests stretch across business, pop culture, social media trends, entertainment and global affairs. Before joining Hindustan Times, Sanya spent two years with Moneycontrol and five years with NDTV. She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a master’s in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. Sanya has a sharp eye for spotting emerging trends and looking for newsworthy angles to elevate viral posts into meaningful narratives. She was the first one, for example, to cover Narayana Murthy’s remark on 70-hour work weeks that sparked a national conversation. She is equally at ease writing about business leaders as about the common man, about issues of national importance and memes that amuse social media. Sanya enjoys speaking with content creators, newsmakers and entrepreneurs to transform everyday moments into engaging, slice-of-life stories that resonate with readers. When she is not working, Sanya can be found curled up with a good book. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has spent the last several years in Delhi. She is deeply interested in animal welfare and now spends a lot of her time running after her destructive orange cat.Read More

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