Discussion

• @gdb Greg Brockman on x

  Welcome @fidjissimo! Fidji has been an amazing friend and colleague, with unique insights and advice on OpenAI. I'm super excited to work with her to deliver AGI that benefits all of humanity.

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence.

• @fidjissimo Fidji Simo on x

  So excited to be joining @openai and contributing to its mission. Thank you @sama for the opportunity- it will be such a privilege to work with such a talented team on one of the most important and ambitious endeavors in history. I'll remain CEO of @Instacart for the next few

• @quantian1 @quantian1 on x

  So in the past week OpenAI bought a SaaS company for $3 billion, appointed a former Facebook/Instacart ad exec CEO, and got export curbs on GPUs lifted. Looks like they finally stopped pretending they'll make superintelligence and are pivoting to AI girlfriends with native ads

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  The “i'll remain ceo of openai” raises questions I didn't have until he brought it up

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  Any man who must say, “I am the King”, is no true king.

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  ex-Facebook people with major influence at OpenAI Bret Taylor (chair) Adam D'Angelo (board) Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann (board) Kevin Weil (CPO) now Fidji Simo (soon CEO of apps)

• @kate_rouch Kate Rouch on x

  She's all signal. No noise. Highest integrity leader I know. Very good news: for OpenAI, for all of us.

• @openai @openai on x

  We're excited to expand our leadership team with @fidjissimo https://openai.com/...

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  fidji is exceptional; we have worked together on openai for the past year and i have observed her deep commitment to our mission. i cannot imagine a better new team member to help us scale the next 10x (or 100x, let's see).

• @jessicalessin Jessica Lessin on x

  I love analyzing comms roll outs and interesting to see so many OpenAI leaders, including board chair, jump on the news and emphasize Fidji's alignment to “the mission.”

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  public company CEO departure being announced via tweet of hiring co. CEO 👀

• @kevinweil Kevin Weil on x

  Super excited to work with @fidjissimo even more closely. Welcome to @OpenAI! It's fun and wild and inspiring.

• @btaylor Bret Taylor on x

  Sam and I are so excited to welcome Fidji as CEO of Applications at OpenAI. Fidji is one of the most remarkable leaders I have ever had the privilege of working with, and I have personally seen her commitment to our mission in the boardroom over the past year. With Fidji joining

• @fidjissimo Fidji Simo on x

  Thanks @MichaBreakstone 🙏 Now let's go cure diseases and make the world better; glad we're all playing our part ❤️

• @markchen90 Mark Chen on x

  So excited to work with @fidjissimo - she's a product visionary!

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  When's the last time the CEO of a very successful company quit to join another company in a non-CEO role? https://techcrunch.com/...

• @fidjissimo Fidji Simo on x

  Product + Research = ❤️ Can't wait to work with @markchen90 and bring his breakthroughs to life through our products.

• @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x

  this is an oddly sequenced and timed announcement... but the upshot looks to be that Fidji Simo will now be both the CEO of Instacart, and also the sub CEO of OpenAI, at least for a while. A new Silicon Valley twist on the dual CEO approach... [image]

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  Washed

• @eringriffith Erin Griffith on x

  has she told the $12bn publicly traded company she is currently ceo of... [image]

• @fidjissimo Fidji Simo on x

  I worked with Kate for 10 years at Meta and the main word that comes to mind is “legend”. So happy to be reunited!

• @michabreakstone Micha Breakstone on x

  @fidjissimo is the perfect combination of razor-sharp intellect, wholehearted compassion, unconquerable vision, and flawless integrity. A remarkable win for OpenAI—and for humanity—at the dawn of AGI.

• @yoda Drew Olanoff on x

  someone on the Instacart side wasn't thrilled https://www.instacart.com/... [image]

• @fidjissimo Fidji Simo on x

  I can hardly express how amazing it has been to see @gdb in action over the last year; working with him was a big part of why I decided to make this move. I couldn't be more excited to work with him, @sama and the entire crew to deliver AGI.

• @fromedome Dan Frommer on x

  Big. @fidjissimo has excelled as CEO of Instacart, which is a great product, a complex (and growing) business, and, in my personal experience, a well-run company. But this seems like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of opportunity, for someone who very clearly gives a shit.

• @fromedome Dan Frommer on x

  @fidjissimo There are CEOs that you can just tell don't really know the ins and outs of their product. They are too stuck in the exec vortex for too long. Listening to Fidji on Instacart's calls was top-tier in-the-weeds CEO stuff, across product, business dynamics, and culture. …

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  ceo of Instacart leaves to become sub-ceo of OpenAI under Altman not sure what “applications” entails (sam please elaborate if you wish) but interesting structure nonetheless

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  NEW: OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, CFO Sarah Friar, and CPO Kevin Weil will report to new CEO of OpenAI applications Fidji Simo, per person familiar. Research, safety, and scaling orgs will continue to report to Altman. Story: https://www.bloomberg.com/...