OpenAI built two separate sales teams for its two main products
OpenAI's Head of Sales · The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI's Head of Sales · Oct 20, 2023 · at 10:30
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Aliisa Rosenthal, Head of Sales at OpenAI, describes OpenAI's rapid organizational growth and commercial structure.
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“A year and a half later, it's the opposite of chill and we've got now two different products, two whole different sales teams, we're hiring like crazy and we're on a rocket ship.”
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