From a family of fishermen to Openai Supreme Executive Director: What we know about Fidji Simo
propagandaOpenai On Thursday, she announced a new employment, a woman from southern France who jumped to Cuites in Silicon Valley and on that day she was Sherrill Sandberg. It is about Simo religionsA 39 -year -old woman, will submit a direct report to Sam German as applications executive and who, according to Altman, Openai will help climb “traditional” jobs. This is all we know about the new technology star.
The daughter of a family of fishermen
Simo It grew up in sèteThe city of a port in southern France. It comes from a family of fishermen and often talked about the importance of food in interviews. He says that He is the first person of his family to go to universityThanks to a scholarship.
He studied in the Paris servant between 2004 and 2008, and thanks to the program he can do EBY practicesIn the United States. There “fell in love with technology.” Then he persuaded EBY to give him work in the United States.
Facebook years
After staying for two years on EBAY, join to Facebook Marketing DepartmentAnd that, according to her, “promoted her career.” He often says he had his great opportunity on Facebook during the weekend of Thanksgiving. Instead of taking the holidays, decided to work in concepts to photograph Facebook experience. Then he suggested to the head of employment and request a job.
Eight years after Zuckerberg, in which she was the former operations director, Sherrill Sandberg, one of its guide, in 2019, she promoted an executive position responsible for the Facebook application. Later Cambridge analytical scandalAfter the departure of Sandberg from Facebook, SIMO also left and held a position that returned to its origins.
Your stage in Instacart
Simo has become the CEO of a company Insacart Lines online delivery company In 2021, it helped change the company’s wealth, and forged Alliances with Uber To deliver restaurants via InstaCart through Uber Eber, giving the two companies a competitive advantage over its dordash.
On Friday, May 9, Fedi Simo said, in an open letter to Instacart employees, “A very difficult decision” I leave “because I love this company,” adding that the employees were “first -class”.
But he added: “At the same time, You all know my passion for Amnesty International in general In particular, for the capabilities it has To treat diseases: The possibility of leading this important part of our collective future was a difficult opportunity to miss. “Simo has often spoke about health at the workplace and was sincere about it Your endometriosis.
The jump to Openai
Simo was already part of Openai’s advice. He will leave InstaCart in the coming months and hold his full position at the end of this year. His new job will collect in requests “a group of trade and operational teams responsible for how our research arrives It benefits the world“Al -Taman said in a blog post.” Fidji is exceptionally qualified to direct this group. ”
Al -Taman said that he will continue in office and supervise the header such as research, computing and applications. In the same blog, Simo said: Openai’s unification at this critical moment is an incredible privilege and responsibility. He added that this organization can “Speeding the human capabilities at an unprecedented rateAnd I am deeply committed to forming these applications to the public good. “
