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8 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
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Sean Brown introduces Sarah Friar as a former leader at Salesforce, Square and Nextdoor who is now OpenAI's CFO.
“Sarah has held leadership roles at Salesforce, Square and Nextdoor, and she's now at the forefront of using generative AI to shape the finance function of the future.”
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Sarah Friar says OpenAI's finance team held a hackathon within her first couple of weeks at the company to find tasks AI could speed up.
“we did a hackathon within the 1st couple of weeks of me being here.”
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Sarah Friar says she had done over 81 one-on-one meetings in her first three months at OpenAI.
“I think I've done over 81 on ones now in my 1st kind of three months here.”
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Sarah Friar says Nextdoor, while she was CEO, was among the first companies to use OpenAI's API to rephrase potentially hurtful remarks.
“we were one of the 1st companies when I was CEO of Nextdoor to take the API actually from OpenAI and use it to help rephrase remarks that could be perceived as hurtful.”
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Sarah Friar says the idea for what became Ladies Who Launch began with an International Women's Day event for Square sellers soon after she joined Square.
“when I 1st joined Square for International Women's Day, we wanted to do something a little special.”
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Sarah Friar says ChatGPT told her, when she asked what she might not know about herself, that growing up in Northern Ireland still shapes her.
“how much growing up in Northern Ireland still continues to shape the person you are today.”
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Sarah Friar says she took a year out before university to work at an accounting firm, where she manually checked accounts-payable invoices.
“I actually took a year out before university and worked for an accounting firm.”
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Sarah Friar says she rowed at university and always sat in the seven seat of the eight-person boat.
“I was always the 7 seat, and the the 7 seat has a really interesting place in the boat.”
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