OpenAI's first sales hire marks five years: joined a 150-person lab with just an API
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-11-02
Adam, OpenAI's first sales hire and founding member of the GTM team, marks five years at the company. When he joined, OpenAI was a 150-person research lab with an API and a bold mission. He fondly calls Davinci "the real OG" and InstructGPT his "first true love" — a small firsthand datapoint on OpenAI's growth over five years.
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