OpenAI has Appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its New Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI is once again making headlines by hiring Denise Dresser, formerly the CEO of Slack, as its chief revenue officer.

According to the announcement, Dresser will be taking care of OpenAI’s global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success. Before being appointed as Slack’s CEO in 2023, Dresser had served as an executive at Salesforce for more than a decade. Salesforce acquired Slack in 2020 for $27 billion.

“I’ve spent my career helping scale category-defining platforms, and I’m looking forward to bringing that experience to OpenAI as it enters its next phase of enterprise transformation,” Dresser said in a statement.

Talking about OpenAI, it kickstarted the boom of generative AI with the launch of ChatGPT three years ago to become one of the fastest-growing commercial entities around the world. The company shared in November that it is on track to achieve $20 billion in annualized revenue run within the year, to grow to hundreds of billions in sales by 2030.

However, the company has been facing fierce pressure from competitors like Google and Anthropic. The company has already made $1.4 trillion in infrastructural commitments with a plan to scale up with its technology. However, the immense sum has caused concern about a potential AI bubble.

According to the latest data, more than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, with support for more than 1 million business customers. With this data, various ChatGPT courses are launched across online platforms. Dresser is going to help OpenAI reach more businesses and be an integral part of their operational processes.

“We’re on a path to put AI tools into the hands of millions of workers across every industry,” Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, said in a statement. “Denise has led that kind of shift before, and her experience will help us make AI useful, reliable, and accessible for businesses everywhere.”