Sam & Jony The Next Adam & Eve?
It feels history books of the future might agree
I read this news and watched video this morning and it felt more significant and newsworthy than the day I saw Twin Towers falling or OJ Simpson chased by police in his white Bronco. Could Jony do with Sam what he did with Steve?
Sam & Jony introduce io
May 21, 2025
This is an extraordinary moment.
Computers are now seeing, thinking and understanding.
Despite this unprecedented capability, our experience remains shaped by traditional products and interfaces.
Two years ago, Jony Ive and the creative collective LoveFrom, quietly began collaborating with Sam Altman and the team at OpenAI.
A collaboration built upon friendship, curiosity and shared values quickly grew in ambition. Tentative ideas and explorations evolved into tangible designs.
The ideas seemed important and useful. They were optimistic and hopeful. They were inspiring. They made everyone smile. They reminded us of a time when we celebrated human achievement, grateful for new tools that helped us learn, explore and create.
It became clear that our ambitions to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products demanded an entirely new company. And so, one year ago, Jony founded io with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.
We gathered together the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers and experts in product development and manufacturing. Many of us have worked closely for decades.
The io team, focused on developing products that inspire, empower and enable, will now merge with OpenAI to work more intimately with the research, engineering and product teams in San Francisco.
As io merges with OpenAI, Jony and LoveFrom will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI and io.
We could not possibly be more excited.
Sam & Jony
I cannot wait to see what they are cooking. Speaking of cooking, 15 years ago today, two pizzas were sold for what Is now $1,100,000,000 dollars. Yes that is 1.1 Billion Dollars!!!
Join my friends in Salt Lake City for PizzaDAO's 5th annual Global Pizza Party! We’re celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day - in 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC ($41 at the time) for two pizzas, worth $1.1 billion dollars today.
If you're a builder, trader, or just interested in crypto, come grab some pizza and celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day with the Utah crypto community. I most likely can’t make it because I am laid up in bed keeping ice on my balls from yesterday’s vasectomy. There will be free pizza:) and drinks covered by sponsors like Giddy, yes Giddy.
Here is link to the local event in SLC. It starts 2 hour after this email sends at 4:20, so get on over there and celebrate what is an invention in our time that is as marvelous to me as the iPhone, Ai, and the Internet.
Scott X