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· 4hInstacart 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.
· 3hOpenAI creates “CEO of Applications” role, taps Instacart’s Fidji Simo
Simo becomes the newest high-profile female executive at OpenAI following the departure of Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati in September. Murati, who had been with the company since 2018 and helped launch ChatGPT, left alongside two other senior leaders and founded Thinking Machines Lab in February.
OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company’s apps business.
Fidji Simo said it was an "incredibly hard decision" to leave Instacart for OpenAI, where she will be CEO of applications.
Simo's departure comes after transforming Instacart from a pandemic-boosted delivery service into a retail technology ...
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