Slack CEO Denise Dresser Joins OpenAI as CRO to Solve the Profitability Puzzle

OpenAI has announced the recruitment of Denise Dresser, the current CEO of Slack, to join the company as its new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) to oversee revenue strategies across enterprise markets and customer success. The move is framed as part of OpenAI’s effort to sustain its enormous AI-compute expenditures and accelerate its path to profitability, following its reorganisation into a Public Benefit Corporation.

In the announcement, Fidji Simo stated: “We’re on a path to put AI tools into the hands of millions of workers, across every industry. Denise has led that kind of shift before, and her experience will help us make AI useful, reliable, and accessible for businesses everywhere.” Analysts are described as believing OpenAI’s next phase will embrace a Silicon Valley playbook that aims to scale aggressively and monetise multiple layers of AI interaction.

The article notes that the monetisation model is expected to combine enterprise subscriptions with advertising, though it emphasises the “super task” of ensuring revenue growth keeps pace with per‑query compute costs. 10 December 2025.