OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue

Cnbc · Aug 14, 2026 · 522 words · By Kate Rooney

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What to know about OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue

At the end of a week of turmoil in OpenAI's C-suite, finance chief Sarah Friar held a meeting with investors on Friday and touted the company's growth in enterprise, which she said now accounts for more revenue than the ChatGPT-led consumer business.

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Why it matters

"We entered the year at 60-40, but enterprise has accelerated much faster than expected and those lines have now crossed," Friar said, according to a person who was in attendance but asked not to be named due to confidentiality.

Common ground

"The majority of our revenue is now enterprise." That puts OpenAI ahead of its previous forecast, as Friar told CNBC earlier this year that the company expected those businesses to reach parity by the end of 2026.

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Claim 1: “finance chief Sarah Friar held a meeting with investors on Friday”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia pages for OpenAI and unrelated topics (Walmart, Pasang). There is no specific mention of a meeting held by Sarah Friar on Friday.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest is a 2022 biographical documentary about Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest on April 22, 1993. The film utilizes archival footage, int…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Walmart Inc. is an American multinational omnichannel retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and g…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2.1.1Creation of for-profit subsidiaries (2019) 2.1.2Conversion to public benefit corporation (2025) 2.2Partnership with Microsoft. 2.3Finances. 2.3.1Initial public offering (2026) 3Business model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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Claim 2: “business customers 'grew even faster,' up 32%”

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Only one source (W33) specifically mentions that business customer revenue grew 32% month-over-month in July. Other sources discuss general revenue or different metrics.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American artificial intelligence (AI) organization OpenAI has released a variety of products and applications since its founding in 2015.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks, also called the Hugging Face Incident and the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident, were a series of unsanctioned coordinated cyberattacks conducted by AI agents within Ope…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-traine…
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Claim 3: “longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was ending an eight-year stint at the ChatGPT creator”

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Claim 4: “Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and a co-founder, also joined Friday's meeting”

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Claim 5: “OpenAI's run rate increased 20% month over month in July”

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Three separate web search results confirm that the revenue run rate increased by more than 20% month-over-month in July.

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Claim 6: “Dresser spent more than a decade at Salesforce and was most recently CEO of Slack”

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Multiple sources (Fortune, Salesforce Ben, and Investing.com) confirm that Denise Dresser was the CEO of Slack and spent over a decade (12+ years) at Salesforce.

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web search NEUTRAL — Dresser has been a Salesforce executive for more than 12 years, and has most recently been the President of Accelerated Services. What Does This Mean for Salesforce? Ditching business for dating is de…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dresser thanked Jones for her leadership over the last year “and trust in me to take this next step”. “You’ve laid an incredible foundation that sets Slack up for success for years to come. It’s an ho…
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web search NEUTRAL — Denise Dresser, chief executive officer of Slack from Salesforce, during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Oct.
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Claim 7: “OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has hit $40 billion”

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Multiple independent news sources (Google News, Bloomberg, and another news report) explicitly state that OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has topped or climbed past $40 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sora was a text-to-video model and social media app developed by OpenAI. Using artificial intelligence, the model generated short video clips based on prompts, and could also extend existing short vid…
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Claim 8: “Friar told CNBC earlier this year that the company expected those businesses to reach parity by the end of 2026”

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The evidence provided for this claim includes Wikipedia entries for the biblical Sarah and Nextdoor, which are irrelevant. No evidence was found regarding Sarah Friar's statements to CNBC about revenue parity.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. is an American company that operates a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. Nextdo…
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Claim 9: “advertising is approaching a $1 billion run rate”

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Claim 10: “her replacement, Dali Rajic, who was operating chief at cybersecurity company Wiz, now owned by Google”

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Claim 11: “enterprise... now accounts for more revenue than the ChatGPT-led consumer business”

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The evidence provided contains general information about OpenAI and ChatGPT but does not provide revenue breakdowns comparing enterprise and consumer business segments.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 30, 2022 · We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challen…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI Platform.
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Claim 12: “the newest model being '54% more efficient' on agentic coding tasks”

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Claim 13: “revenue chief Denise Dresser stepped down just eight months into the job”

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Multiple independent sources (CNBC and two other news reports) confirm that Denise Dresser is leaving OpenAI after eight months in the role.

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months at the company. Her departure comes days after longtime exec Brad Lightcap departed. Business chief Fidji Simo left her role at ...
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company after just eight months, becoming the latest senior executive to exit the artificial intelligence firm amid a broader leadership shak…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI said Thursday it is hiring Dali Rajic, president and chief operating officer of Alphabet-owned cybersecurity firm Wiz, to replace Denise Dresser as its new chief revenue officer. Dresser is dep…
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Claim 14: “The company began testing ads in ChatGPT in February”

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Claim 15: “Rajic was introduced to OpenAI through Thrive founder Josh Kushner”

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