Sarah Friar
Definition
Sarah Friar is an Irish-American business executive who has been the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of OpenAI since June 2024.
She previously served as CEO of Nextdoor, VP of Finance and Business Operations at Square, and held positions at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey.
An Oxford alum with degrees in Metallurgy, Economics, and Management, plus an MBA from Stanford, Friar grew up in Northern Ireland and was awarded an OBE.
Examples
Sarah Friar stepped in as OpenAI's CFO right when the company needed someone to count those skyrocketing server bills without blinking.
With Sarah Friar's financial wizardry, OpenAI's business model is scaling so smoothly, it's like AGI already optimized the spreadsheets.
Forget robes and vows of poverty—Sarah Friar is the 21st-century friar preaching the gospel of profitable AI innovation.
Sarah Friar's recent Oxford Union address had alumni pondering if metallurgy degrees are the secret sauce for taming tech titans.