 You shouldn't. If this really works, it's like quite a powerful technology and you should not trust one company and certainly not one person with it. And yet throughout his career, Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley's kingmakers with ease. Famed investor Paul Graham once described him as, quote, extremely good at becoming powerful. In the latest season of Bloomberg's podcast Foundering, journalist Ellen Hewitt set out to learn Altman's backstory.