Blake Ross

Blake Ross appears in Sam Altman on YC, OpenAI, and the Meaning of Formidable as the person who indirectly brought Sam Altman into Y Combinator. Altman says Ross lived across the hall at Stanford University and posted a link to the Summer Founders Program on Facebook, which led Altman to apply.

Connections

• Sam Altman - Stanford neighbor who found YC through Ross’s post.
• Stanford University - campus context.
• Y Combinator and Summer Founders Program - program Ross’s post pointed toward.
• Startup Accelerator Batch Selection - first-batch selection context.