OpenAI announced on Thursday (13th) the appointment of Dali Rajic, president and chief operating officer of Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer. He replaces Denise Dresser, who had held the position for nine months. The announcement was made by the company's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, in a blog post.
The change is part of a broad restructuring at OpenAI. In the past month, the company lost chief operating officer Brad Lightcap and the executive responsible for AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, considered the second most important leader at the company.
New leadership
With Simo's departure, Brockman took on a broader role in management. About the change, he said that Dresser led the revenue area during a period of business structuring and worked tirelessly to bring the team to its current stage. Brockman also said that Rajic will turn learning into repeatable execution as the company builds a system to make artificial intelligence broadly useful for people and businesses.
Rajic comes from Wiz, a cloud security company acquired by Google for US$ 32 billion this year, in the biggest acquisition in the history of the tech giant.
OpenAI says its products reach more than 1 billion weekly active users and 2 million businesses. Despite the growth, executives acknowledged, publicly and in private conversations, that the company has not met all its revenue targets.
The company also said it has filed a confidential submission with the SEC for a possible IPO, but the timeline remains undefined. This week, OpenAI bought US$ 7 billion in employee shares in a tender offer, a move that may indicate a delay in going public.
In covering the restructuring, Bloomberg News mentioned a passage from OpenAI's blog about the need for "unwavering focus" on "measurable commercial impact," but the comments were reportedly removed from the published version. This year, CEO Sam Altman said the company is focused on enterprise adoption and on reducing projects and experiments considered a distraction from that goal.
