Airbnb Just Hired Away an OpenAI Creative Exec
Photo Credit: The Airbnb app, summer release Courtesy of Airbnb
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Airbnb has recruited an OpenAI VP to help make its next wave of technology feel unmistakably Airbnb. The hire plays to the company’s oldest advantage — and its newer hedge against AI mania: brand.In his own LinkedIn post,
Airbnb has poached OpenAI's first global vice president of creative after less than a year.
The short-term rental company appointed Michael Tabtabai as its new vice president of creative, it confirmed to Skift. He will start in August, the same month that would have marked his one-year anniversary at OpenAI, where he helped build its brand and marketing function.
He had previously held roles at Google
