OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy as its first vice president of worldwide sales, according to announcements and reporting from The Next Web and Fortune. McCarthy says on LinkedIn that he is joining to lead the sales team and notes he is excited to work with Dali Rajic.
McCarthy comes from SpaceX, a company OpenAI reportedly cut off from its model access about three weeks earlier, as described by The Next Web. Fortune frames the hire as part of OpenAI’s sales and leadership build-out, highlighting that it is among the first major hires by Rajic, OpenAI’s new chief revenue officer who joined less than a month before the announcement. Across outlets, the reported overlap creates a contrast in timing: the relationship between OpenAI and SpaceX changes shortly before or around McCarthy’s move, though outlets do not provide further details of any contractual or technical terms.
Together, the sources portray an internal expansion of OpenAI’s go-to-market leadership, with McCarthy’s prior role at SpaceX and Rajic’s recent arrival providing the main context for why the hire is notable.
