OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is ‘envious’ of Gen Z college dropouts who have the ‘mental space’ and time to build new startups

Sam Altman, one of the most powerful leaders in Silicon Valley, is jealous of Gen Z college dropouts. 

“I’m envious of the current generation of 20-year-old dropouts,” the OpenAI CEO told Rowan Cheung during an interview at the DevDay conference. “Because the amount of stuff you can build… the opportunity space is so incredibly wide.”

Altman said in the past couple of years he has not had a “real chunk of free mental space” to think about what he’d build now. “But I know that...