OpenAI Hires New CRO as Executive Shake-Up Continues

OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Dali Rajic, president and chief operating officer of Wiz, to take on the frontier lab's top sales job. The move is part of a broader shake-up in the organization over the last month, which has seen the departures of COO Brad Lightcap and CEO of AGI Deployment Fidji Simo. Greg Brockman, co-founder and president, has taken a larger role in management and announced Rajic's arrival in a blog post. Wiz, Rajic's previous employer, was acquired by Google for $32 billion this year in the tech giant's largest-ever acquisition. The company says its products reach more than one billion weekly active users and two million businesses, but executives have suggested privately and publicly that the company hasn't hit all of its revenue goals. OpenAI has filed confidentially with the SEC ahead of a potential IPO, but it's not clear when that will take place. The company also purchased $7 billion worth of shares from employees this week in a tender offer, which may suggest a delay in the public offering. Bloomberg News' coverage referenced an OpenAI blog post that said the company needed to have a 'relentless focus' on 'measurable business impact,' but those comments appear to have been removed from the published version. This year, CEO Sam Altman has spoken about focusing the company on enterprise deployment and cutting back on technology projects seen as distracting from that goal.