OpenAI poaches another SpaceX sales lead focused on AI
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OpenAI has hired SpaceX’s Graham Seamans to lead sales for the firm’s cybersecurity business, the latest in a string of hires from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture. Seamans, who had led xAI’s sales team since August 2025 and was part of the firm’s renewed push to sell the Grok chatbot to Wall Street, said he’s joining the developer behind ChatGPT to work on the cyber team. Seamans is the latest sales executive who OpenAI has hired from SpaceX’s AI units. Before joining xAI last year, Seamans had worked at MongoDB Inc. for about eight years, according to his LinkedIn. Since September, OpenAI has also hired Brian McCarthy and Ismail Elmas in Europe, both of whom had worked for coding automation startup Cursor, which was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion…
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