OpenAI CFO Sees ‘Vertical Wall of Demand’ for Products (1)

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar pushed back on concerns about missing internal targets, saying the company is meeting objectives and sees “a vertical wall of demand” for its products.

“We feel like we’re beating our plan at the highest level,” Friar said in an interview Thursday. “How we get there often moves around period to period, because this is still a young business that is not perfectly forecastable across every single metric.”

OpenAI came under scrutiny this week after a report the startup fell short of internal targets for revenue and user growth, including a goal of reaching one ...