OpenAI Whisks Away Slack’s CEO for a Fun-Filled Venture as their Chief Revenue Officer
“OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer”
“As Slack’s chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser had to understand how to sell to businesses big and small. She also needed to know how to coach a team and roll out new software. But her next challenge is a little different: Dresser is joining OpenAI as its first-ever chief revenue officer, and she’s got a crash course in all things artificial intelligence ahead of her.”
Costly AI textbooks, gathering dust on the shelves of the determined learners, can now breathe a sigh of relief. Indeed, Denise Dresser, previously acting as Slack’s chief revenue officer, has been tagged into the fascinating AI territory. Swapping from rolling out software to businesses of all sizes to steering the cash flow at OpenAI, Dresser has decided to toss her hat into the smoky, mysterious world of AI. But hey, no pressure, right?
In this revenue-focused role, she’ll be responsible for finding the silver lining in AI. More than just whiteboards full of equations and frightfully smart individuals changer deep in programming jibber-jabber, it’s about seeing through the clutter and morphing contentious AI tech into revenue. Is there a ‘Revenues from AI for Dummies’ out there?
OpenAI, a leading name in cutting-edge AI research, manages to bring together the finest minds in the AI industry to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. Or regularly stir debate around whether we’ll all soon be outsmarted by our Alexa devices, one can’t be too sure. Either way, it’s a tremendous leap in terms of responsibilities and scope for Dresser. Godspeed!
She has to jump out of her comfort zone, tackling business development, strategy, and pricing for AI-based products and services. A small step for Dresser, a giant leap for ‘Revenue-Kind’, considering AI’s notable reputation for being complex, intimidating, and notoriously difficult to monetize.
Oh, and let’s not forget the small matter of advocating her organization’s genuinely concerning super-intelligent models to the world. On days when the robots inevitably rebel against the human overlords (just kidding, or are we?), Dresser will be responsible for ensuring the revenue streams don’t run dry. No wonder she needed a fresh challenge.
Long story short, Dresser’s expertise in sales, coaching, and software seem to make her the perfect candidate to take on this role. Here’s to wishing Dresser the best of luck in channeling her inner AI nerd and growing OpenAI’s revenue streams whilst keeping scary sentient AI firmly in its box. Thank heavens, finally someone’s getting paid to worry about this stuff!