OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is accelerating revenue generation by hiring Denise Dresser, CEO of the workplace messenger Slack, as chief revenue officer (CRO).
OpenAI said on the 9th (local time) that the new CRO Dresser will oversee OpenAI's revenue strategy going forward and support corporations in adopting AI.
CRO Dresser worked at Salesforce, Inc. for 14 years, leading global sales organizations, and also directed the integration of Slack and Salesforce, Inc.. Dresser said, "Based on my experience scaling category-defining platforms, I'm excited to join OpenAI as it enters the next stage of corporations transformation."
Fidji Simo, CEO of the applications institutional sector, said, "We are at a juncture where we are putting AI tools into the hands of millions of employees working across every industry," and evaluated, "CRO Dresser has already led that kind of change and will help us make AI a useful, trustworthy, and accessible tool for corporations."
OpenAI is currently valued at $500 billion (about 730 trillion won), but it has not escaped the red as it invests astronomical sums in AI infrastructure and chip acquisition. Recently, it has faced a crisis, issuing a code red, amid the chase from Google's significantly improved AI model "Gemini 3 Pro."
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this week that the company will release the new version GPT-5.2 and plans to lift the alert after unveiling a new model in Jan. next year.