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Summary
- OpenAI has replaced Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser nine months into her tenure, bringing in Wiz President and COO Dhalie Rajic as the new CRO
- This follows a string of recent executive departures over the past month, including COO Brad Lightcap and AGI deployment CEO Fidji Simo, with co-founder Greg Brockman expanding his role at the forefront of management
- OpenAI confirmed it had confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, and this week purchased an additional $7 billion in employee-held shares, suggesting the listing could be delayed
- 교체 대상
- CRO 데니스 드레서, 재직 9개월
- 신임 CRO
- 달리 라지크(전 Wiz 사장 겸 COO)
- 발표자
- 그렉 브록먼 오픈AI 공동창업자·사장
- 제품 규모
- 주간 활성 사용자 10억명 이상, 기업 고객 200만곳
- Wiz 인수가
- 구글이 320억달러에 인수(올해)
OpenAI has once again changed its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Denise Dresser is stepping down after just nine months in the role, and Dhalie Rajic, former President and COO of cloud security company Wiz, has been brought in as the new CRO. Wiz was acquired by Google earlier this year for $32 billion, marking Google's largest-ever acquisition.
OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman announced the personnel change directly in a blog post. Brockman credited the departing executive, saying "Dresser led the revenue organization through the company's formative period and worked to build the team up to its current level." He added, "The way AI is being deployed is changing rapidly, and Rajic will turn what she's learned into a repeatable execution framework."
This CRO change is not an isolated event. Since last month, OpenAI's senior leadership ranks have visibly thinned. On August 11, COO Brad Lightcap announced his resignation after four years in the role. He joined the company in 2018, served as CFO for four years, and had held the COO position since 2022. Before that, Fidji Simo, CEO of AGI deployment and the company's number-two executive, left in July, and Bill Peebles, who led Sora, and Kevin Weil, VP of Science, have also recently been named among departures. Simo's exit is the backdrop against which Brockman has expanded his role at the forefront of management.
OpenAI states that its products reach more than 1 billion weekly active users and 2 million enterprise customers. But even as the company has grown, executives have reportedly acknowledged—both privately and publicly—that they have not hit all their revenue targets. Bloomberg reported that OpenAI's blog post originally contained language about needing to "relentlessly focus" on "measurable business outcomes," but that phrase was absent from the version actually published. This aligns with a broader shift this year in which CEO Sam Altman has designated enterprise customer acquisition as a company priority, while scaling back technical experiments unrelated to that goal.
OpenAI has confirmed it confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, though the timing of the listing remains unclear. It's common for private companies to reshuffle their executive lineup ahead of going public, and this week OpenAI purchased an additional $7 billion in employee-held shares, valuing the company at $852 billion. The funds came from the $122 billion funding round raised last March, giving employees a channel to cash out equity. This has been read as a signal that the IPO could be delayed beyond expectations. With the change at the top of the revenue organization, the string of executive departures, and IPO preparations all unfolding simultaneously, OpenAI appears to be moving from a phase of scaling up to one of tightening execution.
