Sarah Friar

CFO, OpenAI

Sarah Friar has been OpenAI's first chief financial officer since June 2024, running finance for the maker of ChatGPT as it seeks to raise as much as $1.4 trillion. She previously ran Nextdoor and was CFO of Square.

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Owning OpenAI's finances — and the fundraising number nobody will say out loud; formerly CEO of Nextdoor and CFO of Square.

Worth knowing

As an intern at Ashanti Goldfields in the 1990s, she was sent to work at a gold mine in Ghana.
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2019 for her work in entrepreneurship and financial services, and was on Time's list of the most influential people in 2026.
She co-founded Ladies Who Launch, a non-profit for female entrepreneurs, and co-chairs Stanford's Digital Economy Lab.
She was named to Stanford's board of trustees in November 2025, for a five-year term starting in February 2026.

Age: 53
Based: San Francisco, CA
Primary role: CFO, OpenAI
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1972

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Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman as it seeks $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation

Ken Paxton's October 23 suit is the tenth state case against OpenAI this year, filed as investors negotiate a $1.25 trillion price for a company that has already confidentially filed to go public. With no federal AI law, state attorneys general are writing OpenAI's enforcement record themselves.

October 24, 2026 · 3 min read

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Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman as it seeks $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation

OpenAI seeks $1.4 trillion the same day it cut the price of intelligence fivefold

OpenAI's Next Raise Assumes a Number Nobody Will Say Out Loud

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Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman as it seeks $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation

OpenAI seeks $1.4 trillion the same day it cut the price of intelligence fivefold

OpenAI's Next Raise Assumes a Number Nobody Will Say Out Loud

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