How things really work at OpenAI (from their VP of Finance)

Go inside OpenAI with VP of Finance Janine Korovesis for a rare look at the finance engine powering the fastest-growing company in history. Janine reveals and discusses:  
 

• Scaling a finance team during hypergrowth (29:03)
• Balancing internal expertise with external resources (35:08)
• The importance of "healthy fear" in financial leadership (30:59)
• Why every finance leader should do hackathons with their team (42:53)
• Leveraging ChatGPT for finance (including asking it how to process a dataset with 10 million   rows!) (44:06)
• The future at OpenAI (53:15)

Janine's impressive background (OpenAI, Google [X], Google, EY, Board Advisor, Investor) provides a unique perspective on building and scaling finance to provide strategic support that enables breakthroughs for world-changing opportunities. Don't miss our conversation with one of the key figures shaping the future of AI finance. 
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