Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; CEO and product architect of Tesla; founder and CEO of xAI; founder and CTO of X Corp.; co-founder of Neuralink and The Boring Company; and co-founder of OpenAI, from which he later departed. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world as of 2025.

Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor. He has been CEO of OpenAI since 2019. He was previously president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. Altman co-founded the location-based social networking app Loopt in 2005 while at Stanford University, which he later dropped out of. Born April 22, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois.