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OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide sales
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McCarthy joined SpaceX in August through its acquisition of Cursor.
Key facts
- That includes Mark Fleming, Snowflake’s SVP of enterprise sales, and Jaime Patel, Snowflake’s VP of enterprise sales engineering for North America
- McCarthy reported to Rajic when two worked together at AppDynamics from 2017-2018, when Rajic was chief revenue officer and McCarthy was vice president of sales — He is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer who started less than a month ago on Aug. 24
- In his LinkedIn post announcing the news, McCarthy said he was drawn to the role because he shares the vision held by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, co-founder and president Greg Brockman, and Rajic
Summary
OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide sales. He is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer who started less than a month ago on Aug. 24. Rajic has also recruited two sales executives from the AI data company Snowflake, according to a source familiar. McCarthy reported to Rajic when two worked together at AppDynamics from 2017-2018, when Rajic was chief revenue officer and McCarthy was vice president of sales.