A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO
The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever. She has pulled off impossible ones before.
“She follows a line of women in Silicon Valley asked to tame the wilder impulses of companies—or their younger male founders.” — www.wsj.com/business/ope...
‘OpenAI is going through the most crucial stretch of its eleven-year-history. If she moves too slowly, it could fall behind and hit the market behind Anthropic, missing out on pools of investor money. Move too quickly, and she could stretch the business too far.’ www.wsj.com/bu…