---
title: "Why I joined OpenAI"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-joined-openai-qt7mte8qt
source_url: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
type: article
source: "Brendan Gregg's Blog"
published: 2026-02-07T00:38:29.439Z
updated: 2026-02-07T03:41:20.952Z
tags: ["ai", "openai", "chatgpt"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Why I joined OpenAI

**[Brendan Gregg's Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/brendangregg)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Brendan Gregg, a renowned datacenter performance expert, shares his decision to join OpenAI to tackle the massive performance engineering challenges of AI datacenters. He describes how conversations with everyday ChatGPT users, including his hairstylist, revealed the technology's widespread adoption and impact. After 26 interviews with AI companies, he chose OpenAI for its talented engineering team, scale challenges, and opportunity to make significant environmental and cost impacts through performance optimization.

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