US EditionOpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as head of applications, reporting to Altman
- OpenAI hired Fidji Simo, Instacart's CEO and board member at OpenAI, as its CEO of Applications, to start later this year.
- Simo joined OpenAI's board in March 2024 and has significantly contributed, prompting Altman to assign her to lead business and operational teams.
- Altman said Simo will manage teams responsible for delivering OpenAI's research globally while he focuses more on research, compute, and safety.
- Altman described Simo as "exceptional" with a deep commitment and said she is "uniquely qualified" to help OpenAI scale tenfold or more.
- Simo will transition from Instacart over several months, remain on its board, and join OpenAI full-time to support its mission and growth.
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Shadow CEO OpenAI has poached the CEO of Instacart for a fancy new gig — but there's something weird going on with her job description. In a statement, CEO and cofounder Sam Altman announced that Fidji Simo, a former Facebook executive who took over at Instacart in 2021 and became an OpenAI board member almost exactly one year ago, would be the company's first-ever "CEO of Applications." This announcement, which came just days after OpenAI was f…
The Setoise, a former member of Meta and of Instacart, will not officially hold the position of number two. Nevertheless, she will support the CEO, Sam Altman, to which "she will report directly".
Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as new CEO of Applications
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will join the maker of ChatGPT as "CEO of Applications" later this year, according to a company blog post. Simo, who has served on the company's board since March 2024, will oversee business and operational teams while continuing to report directly to Altman in the newly created role. Altman will remain the primary CEO of OpenAI. According to Reuters, Simo spent a decade at Meta, inclu…
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is heading to OpenAI: Here’s what you need to know
The woman behind Instacart’s successful IPO, Fidji Simo, is joining OpenAI’s C-suite. On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Simo’s new role as CEO of applications. She will report directly to him after transitioning out of her current role at Instacart later this year. “In her new role, Fidji will focus on enabling our “traditional” company functions to scale as we enter a next phase of growth,” Altman said in a blog post. “Fidji brings …
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