Nejatian: Personally audited every Opendoor invoice from the past 12 months
Kaz Nejatian · Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 18, 2025 · at 21:42
Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian shares his immediate operational actions upon taking over leadership at Opendoor.
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“Like, I, one of the first things I did was I got the board member, and I went through literally every invoice the company had paid for the last 12 months. Like actually every single one of them. Like I've reviewed like every line item.”
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