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Former Slack CEO who served as OpenAI's chief revenue officer before departing amid a wave of executive turnover at the company.
Dresser, Simo and Lightcap are all gone within about a month of each other, with an IPO prospectus already filed confidentially and no offering date attached.
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A cybersecurity sales operator now owns the number OpenAI's 2027 listing will be judged on, and Anthropic may reach the public market first.
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Brian McCarthy becomes OpenAI's first vice president of worldwide sales, arriving from a SpaceX that OpenAI stopped supplying three weeks ago. He is the new revenue chief's first hire, and two Snowflake sales leaders are moving over too.
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Audited figures confirmed by the FT put $19bn of research and nearly $6bn of sales against $13bn of revenue. The $41.55bn charge offered to explain the year's loss is larger than the loss it explains, which is where the pricing argument now sits.
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Fourteen executives gone in 2026, a listing pushed to 2027, and a Stargate bill averaging $125 billion a year. The headcount is noise. The seats are the story.
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Two go-to-market leaders gone in a week, five C-suite changes in a year, and an incoming revenue chief whose method is to re-score every open deal.
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OpenAI's president has absorbed product strategy and the whole scaling arm while his title stayed the same. Altman is still CEO; the operating decisions are no longer his.
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Sarah Friar told staff an IPO is a milestone, not a finish line, in the same week OpenAI said it slowed scaling and the WSJ reported 18% quarterly revenue growth. Capital is the constraint being managed.
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