Meet Fidji Simo, OpenAI's latest top hire, who rose from a small French fishing village to the heart of Silicon Valley

Fidji Simo, Instacart's chair and CEO, said it was an "incredibly hard decision" to leave the grocery-delivery giant for OpenAI.

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• Fidji Simo, 39, is set to join OpenAI later this year as its CEO of applications.
• Simo spent over a decade at Meta and is the chair and CEO of Instacart.
• She grew up in a fishing village in France before starting her career in Silicon Valley.

For 39-year-old Fidji Simo, joining OpenAI as its...