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OpenAI is among the quickest corporations to hit $1 billion in annual income.
ChatGPT reached 200 million customers in two months, 4.5x sooner than TikTok.
OpenAI’s blitzkrieg pace and sheer scale are historic, however what’s much more mind-boggling is that they did it with no advertising staff.
Now with greater than 350 staff members, there nonetheless isn’t a advertising staff.
And from OpenAI’s profession web page, they don’t plan on creating one. Out of the 71 open roles on the time of this writing, none are in advertising.
So how does OpenAI create a robust model, develop into a class chief, and develop to $100 billion in annual income with out spending a single dime on advertising?
You’re about to search out out.
Zarina Stanik was the only real marketer working at OpenAI when ChatGPT launched to the world.
Her LinkedIn says she’s nonetheless working at OpenAI, however in an interview on July 13, 2022, she says, “I’m now not with the corporate.” She hasn’t posted on Linkedin in six months.
Stanik stated she received the job when somebody in her community reached out to her as she was approaching her eighth yr as “Director of Occasions & Neighborhood” at Ceros, a content material creation firm for enterprise advertising groups.
Her OpenAI function was referred to as “Enterprise Advertising and marketing” based on her LinkedIn. Her principal focus was commercialization of the ChatGPT product, serving to the Go To Market staff promote to giant companies by means of gross sales…
