Exclusive: OpenAI poaches Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to be its VP of worldwide sales

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    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/17/openai-poache-brian-mccarthy-from-spacex-as-its-vp-of-worldwide-sales/",
    "title": "Exclusive: OpenAI poaches Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to be its VP of worldwide sales",
    "author": "Emily Forlini",
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    "excerpt": "OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide sales. McCarthy joined SpaceX in August through its acquisition of Cursor. At both companies he served as the president of global revenue and worldwide field operations. He previously led enterprise sales teams at Rubrik, ThoughtSpot, AppDyanamics, and Qlik. He is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer who started less than a month ago on Aug. 24. This is a newly created position and McCarthy will not be replacing anyone. McCarthy reported to Rajic when two worked together at AppDynamics from 2017-2018, when Rajic was chief revenue officer and McCarthy was vice president of sales. Both were on the team as AppDynamics prepared to go public, but then Cisco swooped in to purchase it a day before the planned listing. “Brian combines a deep commitment to customers with a belief in what technology can do for people,” Rajic said in an OpenAI LinkedIn post. “I’m excited to partner with him as we scale our business, help enterprises transform, and bring the benefits of AI to more people around the world.” McCarthy will work with Rajic to build out the sales team, and to scale and accelerate enterprise growth, including overseas, OpenAI said. Corporate adoption of frontier AI models has been a key battleground for OpenAI and rival Anthropic, and an important revenue stream...",
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