🎙️ Ep. 42 · OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar | Ed on the Edge
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This fireside chat took place on April 8th at the 16th annual ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.
Sarah Friar is the Chief Financial Officer of OpenAI. Before joining OpenAI, Sarah served as Chief Executive Officer of Nextdoor from 2018 to 2024, and as Chief Financial Officer of Block (formerly Square) between 2012 and 2018. Before her tenure at Block, Sarah served as SVP of Finance & Strategy at Salesforce, she held executive roles at Goldman Sachs and started her career at McKinsey in London and South Africa. Sarah currently sits on the board of directors of Walmart and Consensys, as well as on the advisory boards of HOPE Global, the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford University. She previously served as a director of Nextdoor, Slack and New Relic. She is the co-founder of Ladies Who Launch, a nonprofit that celebrates and empowers women entrepreneurs. Sarah graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters of Engineering in Metallurgy, Economics, and Management and also from Stanford Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
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