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AI talent war: Software industry is a new target as top executives jump ship to OpenAI
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Software giants are seeing their worst stock performance in years on fears of AI disruption.
Key facts
- But CFO Sarah Friar recently said the company is on track to bring that to 50% by the end of the year
- As of January, enterprise customers made up roughly 40% of OpenAI's business
- Earlier this month, CNBC confirmed that Oracle was laying off thousands of employees as it doubled down on AI cloud computing
- Jennifer Majlessi also joined Salesforce last month and took a role as head of go-to-market at OpenAI, according to LinkedIn
Summary
Several top software executives have been poached by AI giants that are hunting for talent with sales and go-to-market experience, according to sources. Executives from Salesforce, Snowflake, and Datadog have been poached recently by OpenAI and Anthropic, lured by large compensation packages and the opportunity to bring existing corporate relationships to these AI companies, according to multiple sources. One of OpenAI's splashiest software hires was Denise Dresser. But the new frontier in the talent war speaks to AI giants' changing priorities.