OpenAI Veteran Brad Lightcap Exits After 8 Years to Start New Venture
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Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 11
OpenAI Veteran Brad Lightcap Exits After 8 Years to Start New Venture
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 11
Summary
Brad Lightcap told OpenAI staff on Tuesday that he is leaving the company in a “bittersweet” move to “start something new,” after months focused on what he called the “next horizon.”
Lightcap joined in 2018, spent 4 years as CFO, then served as COO from 2022 until earlier this year, when an executive reshuffle moved him to lead special projects.
In his farewell note, he said he helped build OpenAI’s early finance, legal, people, security, go-to-market, government and partnerships teams, and added he would share more about his next venture soon.
His departure comes as OpenAI prepares for a potentially landmark IPO and continues a leadership shakeup that has also included exits by No. 2 executive Fidji Simo, Bill Peebles and Kevin Weil.