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OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales

Fortune Emily Forlini

OpenAI hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its vice president of worldwide sales. He is the first major hire by Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, who started on Aug. 24, and the role is newly created. OpenAI says McCarthy will help build out the sales team and scale enterprise growth, including overseas.

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McCarthy is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI's new CRO who joined less than a month ago.

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The biggest signal today wasn’t a new model—it was money moving to the infrastructure that makes models practical. Crusoe, OpenAI’s Stargate partner, raised $3.9 billion in a Series F that pushes its post-money valuation to $30.9 billion, up from about $10 billion after its roughly year-earlier Series E. The implication is simple: compute is still the scarce input, and data-center scale remains where value concentrates. Crusoe says the cash will fund projects like Abilene and expand its AI data-center and cloud offerings, with board changes and “potential IPO discussions” adding to the sense that this is moving from high-growth story to public-market candidate.

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