Samuel H. “Sam” Altman is an entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist and blogger. He is the president of Y Combinator. Altman was named one of the “Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology” by BusinessWeek in 2008 and was listed as one of the five most interesting startup founders between 1979 and 2009 by Paul Graham.

“You can’t teach everything necessary to succeed in starting a company, but I suspect we can teach a surprising amount. We’ve tried to take some of the best speakers from the past 9 years of Y Combinator dinners and arrange them in a way that will hopefully make sense.

We’re doing this because we believe helping a lot of people be better at starting companies will be good for everyone. It will hopefully be valuable even for people who don’t want to start startups.”

If you are interested in startups and want to learn more, you should definitely check http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ where you can find videos of the lectures, associated reading materials, and assignments how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts!