Story
August 14, 2026
OpenAI’s revenue reset puts Brockman’s IPO blueprint to the test
OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser with former Wiz executive Dali Rajic as Greg Brockman assumes a larger operating role. The company calls it a disciplined growth move; outside reporting sees a consequential pre-IPO reshuffle.
OpenAI is changing the executive team charged with turning blockbuster AI adoption into a durable business — just as its path to an eventual public offering comes into sharper focus.
Denise Dresser, hired from Slack in December to lead revenue growth, said she would leave in the coming weeks to pursue other opportunities. Her exit followed former COO Brad Lightcap’s departure by days and came after Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s former AGI-deployment chief, moved out of the operating ranks. 1
OpenAI’s own account casts the change as an acceleration, not a retreat. The company says its products now serve more than 1 billion weekly active users and 2 million businesses — double the business count a year earlier — and credits Dresser with building its commercial foundation. “We’re now at an inflection point,” OpenAI said, arguing that the next generation of models will reshape how companies are built and run. 2
Into that moment steps Dali Rajic, the former president and COO of Wiz, the cybersecurity company recently acquired by Google. OpenAI says Rajic will construct the “revenue operating system” needed to scale, drawing on his experience at Wiz, Zscaler and AppDynamics. Brockman framed the handoff as a shift from early momentum to repeatable execution: “The way we’re deploying this technology is changing rapidly.” 2
Outside reporting places the personnel changes in a more urgent context. Brockman is taking a broader management role and assembling leaders around an enterprise push meant to put OpenAI ahead of Anthropic in business adoption, according to sources familiar with the matter. One source described him as “a founder in founder mode,” increasingly meeting customers and internal teams. 3
The two readings are not mutually exclusive. OpenAI presents a growing commercial machine getting sharper; reports of successive senior departures underscore how much of that machine is being rebuilt while the company pursues an IPO. Dresser, meanwhile, leaves after what she called “the difficult decision” to seek other opportunities. 4