Slack CEO Dennis Dresser during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 29, 2024.
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OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as chief revenue officer.
OpenAI said in a release that Dresser will oversee the artificial intelligence startup’s global revenue strategy across both customer success and enterprise.
After spending more than 10 years as a business owner, sales forceDresser was named chief executive of Slack in 2023, and Salesforce acquired the messaging company in 2020 for more than $27 billion.
“I have spent my career helping scale category-defining platforms, and I look forward to bringing that experience to OpenAI as it enters the next phase of enterprise transformation,” Dresser said in a statement.
OpenAI launched the generative AI boom three years ago with the launch of its chatbot ChatGPT, quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing commercial organizations on the planet.
The company announced in November that it expects annual sales to hit more than $20 billion this year and plans to grow sales to hundreds of billions of dollars by 2030.
However, as competition intensifies from rivals such as google And from a human perspective, OpenAI faces pressure to deliver. The company is investing an additional $1.4 trillion in infrastructure to expand its technology, a huge amount that has raised eyebrows and raised concerns about a potential AI bubble.
Over 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and OpenAI supports over 1 million enterprise customers.
OpenAI says Dresser will help more companies integrate AI into their daily operations.
“We are on the path to putting AI tools into the hands of millions of workers across every industry,” Fiji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, said in a statement. “Denise has led such changes before, and her experience will help make AI useful, reliable, and accessible for businesses everywhere.”
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