Fidji Simo is wrapping up her first week at OpenAI, where she is expected to oversee most of the company’s roughly 3,000 employees.
To investors and partners, OpenAI leaders have been describing the former Instacart CEO as the kind of steady hand the company needs. Her mandate is clear: turn a chaotic, unprofitable startup into a disciplined, publicly traded tech giant. On paper, she seems well-suited. She lived through Facebook’s hyper-growth era in the early 2010s, helped take Instacart public, and knows the advertising industry inside and out – experience that will be valuable once ads arrive in ChatGPT.
Simo’s arrival also underscores …
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