OpenAI Hires Slack CEO Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI has hired Slack Chief Executive Officer Denise Dresser to be its chief revenue officer as the ChatGPT maker pushes to expand business adoption of its artificial intelligence products.

Dresser was named CEO at Slack in late 2023, after the workplace communication provider was acquired by Salesforce Inc. Dresser previously served as a longtime executive at Salesforce.

OpenAI now has more than 1 million businesses paying to use its enterprise AI products, but it faces growing competition from Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The company is under pressure to grow revenue fast enough to justify its immense investments ...