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Why OpenAI Hired Instacart's CEO - DTNSB SPECIAL

Tom talks with Andrew Mayne about why Fidji Simo would leave INstacrt to take a product role at OpenAI and how that might change how you think about OpenAI. 


Starring Tom Merritt and Andrew Mayne.


Andrew Mayne founder of AI deployment firm Interdimensional.

https://interdimensional.ai/

https://attentionmechanismpodcast.com/


https://openai.com/index/leadership-expansion-with-fidji-simo/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/openai-recruits-instacart-ceo-fidji-simo-to-lead-app-development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidji_Simo

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/fidjisimo/

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