OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement

OpenAI has hired three former Patreon executives — co-founder and technology chief Sam Yam, former product head Drew Rowny, and former engineering head Shannon Ma — to lead a new Creator Product effort, Yam announced on X. Yam said the team will "build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools" he expects to be valuable to creators and their communities, with an announcement teased as upcoming. Rowny and Ma stepped down from Patreon in the past few weeks.

OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement By Jess WeatherbedSource: The Verge AI https://www.theverge.com OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, co-founder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X https://x.com/samyamiam/status/2102503574492332141 that he's joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product. He's also bringing Patreon's former product head Drew Rowny https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drowny last-week-i-wrapped-up-four-of-the-most-meaningful-share-7497665160883412993-vjZn/ and engineering head Shannon Ma https://lnkd.in/p/eM9EF r4 with him on the new venture, both of whom stepped down in the past few weeks. "We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities," Yam said in his announcement. "Pay attention https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/attention … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.