Friar served as CFO at Sq., sits on the board of Walmart and labored at McKinsey, Salesforce and Goldman Sachs. She was tapped alongside Kevin Weil, who will function chief product officer.
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‘OpenAI introduced this week the hiring of former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as its first chief monetary officer.
Friar beforehand served as a CFO on the monetary providers firm Sq., at the moment sits on the board of Walmart and in addition labored at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Salesforce. Her hiring was introduced alongside the appointment of Kevin Weil as chief product officer. Weil beforehand labored at Twitter and Meta.
“Sarah and Kevin bring a depth of experience that will enable OpenAI to scale our operations, set a strategy for the next phase of growth, and ensure that our teams have the resources they need to continue to thrive,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned in a press release
The appointments got here after the high-profile departures of a number of OpenAI executives together with OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who left in Could six months after taking part in a task in Altman’s firing and rehiring as CEO.
Throughout her time as CEO of Nextdoor Friar inspired actual property brokers to make use of the neighborhood-based social media platform to generate leads.
“You’re in a market area that is all about community,” Friar mentioned at an Inman Join occasion in 2019. “People don’t buy a house, they buy a home. People don’t want to see bricks and mortar, they want to understand who are my neighbors what are the local schools like, how friendly are people.”
The corporate, nonetheless, raised its costs on actual property commercials below her tenure, drawing criticism from brokers who instructed Inman in a 2019 article that they struggled to seek out leads by way of the platform.
At Inman Join New York 2024, Friar inspired brokers to go additional of their efforts to ingratiate themselves into the communities they serve.
“We’re perfect for all of you because we are the neighborhood,” Friar mentioned. “What I love about real estate agents, Realtors, is you are the new community activists. You are the people who care most about your communities.”
