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Sarah Friar

21 articles stable

Sarah Friar has appeared in 21 articles since 2016-03. Coverage peaked in 2026Q2 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Nextdoor, CFO, OpenAI, IPO.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-04-06
The Information 18 related

Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo, instead of Altman, in August 2025

Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon …

2025-11-06
CNBC 3 related

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government “backstop” for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word “muddied the point”

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking …

2025-09-16
CNBC 7 related

OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spending; he left xAI in July

OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer …

2025-05-08
Bloomberg 10 related

Source: Fidji Simo will oversee several OpenAI executives who previously reported to Altman, including COO Brad Lightcap, CFO Sarah Friar, and CPO Kevin Weil

Bloomberg :

2024-06-11
Bloomberg 5 related

OpenAI hires Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first CFO, and former Instagram and Twitter product chief Kevin Weil as its chief product officer

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :

2024-02-23
The Information

Nextdoor replaces CEO Sarah Friar with co-founder Nirav Tolia, who served as CEO between 2010 and 2018; sources: the board also discussed selling the startup

The Information : X: @nikitabier , @joshuaogundu , and @nmasc_ X: Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : My time has come. Josh / @joshuaogundu : Nextdoor is exploring a CEO change or sale. Opened at $13.01 at ...

2020-10-18
Fast Company 2 related

A look at the pandemic's impact on Nextdoor and how CEO Sarah Friar has attempted to promote the concept of “kindness” amid a tumultuous year for the company

Morgan Clendaniel / Fast Company :

2020-10-17
Fast Company

A look at the pandemic's impact on Nextdoor and how CEO Sarah Friar has attempted to promote the concept of “kindness” amid a tumultuous year for the company

The social network for local communities bet on kindness to power it to an IPO.  If only the locals don't ruin it. Tweets: @mclendaniel , @table_delete , and @ctrlzee Tweets: Morgan Clendaniel / @mcle...

2020-04-18
Financial Times

Profile of Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar, as the social network becomes a hub to help neighbors during the pandemic with DAUs up 80% globally from February to March

Financial Times : Tweets: @daveleeft Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : I'm sorry, but how adorable is the FT's cartoon of Next Door's Sarah Friar? Great piece by @MsHannahMurphy about the woman who is ...

2019-01-04
TechCrunch 8 related

Square hires Blizzard Entertainment's Amrita Ahuja as CFO three months after long-time CFO Sarah Friar exited for the CEO job at Nextdoor

Founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey says Square has poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment, a division of the gaming company Activision Blizzard …

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TEXXR tracks 21 Techmeme articles mentioning Sarah Friar, dating back to October 2018. The biggest stories include OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes... and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in.... Frequently covered alongside Nextdoor, CFO, OpenAI, and CNBC. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise themes and away from consumer, research.

Key Moments

2024Q4consumer +50pts; research +50pts; funding -100pts
2025Q3enterprise +100pts; consumer -50pts; research -50pts
2025Q4funding +50pts; regulation +100pts

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