--- title: OpenAI hires first VP of worldwide sales as enterprise... description: OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy, formerly of SpaceX, as its first VP of worldwide sales, reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic. The hire is notable... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-first-vp-of-worldwide-sales-as-enterprise-revenue-overtakes-chatgpt-consumer-revenue-kbcbe8tnn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI hires first VP of worldwide sales as enterprise revenue overtakes ChatGPT consumer revenue | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy, formerly of SpaceX, as its first VP of worldwide sales, reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic. The hire is notable... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-first-vp-of-worldwide-sales-as-enterprise-revenue-overtakes-chatgpt-consumer-revenue-kbcbe8tnn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kbCBe8TNn.png og:image:alt: OpenAI hires first VP of worldwide sales as enterprise revenue overtakes ChatGPT consumer revenue og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI hires first VP of worldwide sales as enterprise revenue overtakes ChatGPT consumer revenue **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 1 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy, formerly of SpaceX, as its first VP of worldwide sales, reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic. The hire is notable because SpaceX owns Cursor, an AI coding tool OpenAI cut off from its models just three weeks earlier over ties to a rival lab. McCarthy is the fourth leadership change atop OpenAI's sales organization since August, following departures of Denise Dresser and Kaylin Voss, with two Snowflake sales executives, Mark Fleming and Jaime Patel, also reportedly joining. The moves come as OpenAI's enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT consumer revenue and the company reportedly weighs a $1.5 trillion private valuation ahead of a possible public listing. ## Content OpenAI has named Brian McCarthy as its first VP of worldwide sales, reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic. McCarthy comes from Cursor, which SpaceX acquired for roughly $60 billion — notable timing given that OpenAI cut off model access to Cursor just three weeks ago over the coding tool's ties to a rival AI lab. The hire is the fourth leadership change atop OpenAI's sales organization since August. Denise Dresser and Kaylin Voss both departed in that stretch. Two Snowflake sales executives, Mark Fleming and Jaime Patel, are also reportedly joining. The pattern here is deliberate: OpenAI is building out an enterprise revenue org with both dealmakers and sales engineers, not just account executives. Enterprise revenue has apparently overtaken ChatGPT consumer revenue, which explains the urgency. The company is also reportedly weighing a $1.5 trillion private valuation ahead of an eventual public listing. The Cursor situation is a bit awkward to ignore. OpenAI pulled model access from a company, then hired one of its sales leaders weeks later. Whether that reflects opportunism or just how quickly things move in this industry is hard to say — probably both. ## Questions this post answers ### Why did OpenAI cut off Cursor's access to its models? OpenAI cut off model access to Cursor over its ties to a rival AI lab, a decision made just three weeks before OpenAI hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX, which owns Cursor, as its first VP of worldwide sales, creating an awkward overlap between the two companies. _Developers weighing AI coding tool access risks can follow shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### Has OpenAI's enterprise revenue overtaken its ChatGPT consumer revenue? Yes, OpenAI's enterprise revenue has now overtaken revenue from ChatGPT consumer subscriptions, coinciding with a hiring push for a more structured enterprise sales team and reports that the company is weighing a $1.5 trillion private valuation ahead of a possible public listing. _Teams evaluating OpenAI's enterprise trajectory can track business shifts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-former-sales-leader-joins-vc-firm-acrew-openai-taught-her-where-startups-can-build-a-moat-bqsn1qsi8) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-appoints-dali-rajic-as-chief-revenue-officer-fkqcvkev0) · OpenAI · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-first-vp-of-worldwide-sales-as-enterprise-revenue-overtakes-chatgpt-consumer-revenue-kbcbe8tnn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenAI hires first VP of worldwide sales as enterprise revenue overtakes ChatGPT consumer revenue","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-first-vp-of-worldwide-sales-as-enterprise-revenue-overtakes-chatgpt-consumer-revenue-kbcbe8tnn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-hires-first-vp-of-worldwide-sales-as-enterprise-revenue-overtakes-chatgpt-consumer-revenue-kbcbe8tnn"},"datePublished":"2026-09-18T11:57:46.560Z","dateModified":"2026-09-18T16:44:45.161Z","description":"OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy, formerly of SpaceX, as its first VP of worldwide sales, reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic. 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