Sam Altman thinks working at Goldman Sachs ‘sounds unbelievably terrible now’ and admits he was ‘peer pressured’ into accepting an internship there
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Sam Altman said he was peer pressured into accepting a Goldman Sachs internship offer while still in college, then turned it down and instead pursued Loopt and later Y Combinator. He said Goldman’s intern class acceptance rate is now below 1%. Now OpenAI is recruiting 100+ former investment bankers to train AI models for financial modeling and to automate junior-bank tasks, reflecting a shift toward AI-native finance roles.