Dinner with OpenAI's Chief People Officer | Berkeley/Stanford/SRI Founders
About the dinner
This is a small, highly curated gathering designed for meaningful conversation. Please complete the application thoughtfully to help shape the group and discussion with KC.
Agenda:
Fireside Chat: Insights and reflections from KC to kick off the evening
Jeffersonian Dinner: A single, moderated conversation shared by the entire table
Open Exchange: Unstructured time for deeper 1:1 connections and fluid discussion to close the night
Who is this for?
Early-stage founders with traction and revenue, or raised from institutional investors (Seed/pre-Series A preferred)
Founders thinking seriously about hiring, culture, and growing high-performance teams
Founders affiliated with Berkeley, Stanford or SRI communities or groups
What we will cover?
Attracting and selecting top-tier talent
Building systems to enhance team performance
Common hiring and culture mistakes early-stage founders make
Real vs. hyped applications of AI
About KC
As the Chief People Officer at OpenAI, Arvind KC is responsible for shaping how OpenAI manages its workforce as it grows, including overseeing hiring, onboarding, employee development, performance management, and organizational systems and policies that support collaboration and high performance across the company.
Before joining OpenAI, he served as Chief People and Systems Officer at Roblox, where he led the internal organization chartered with evolving the Roblox’s processes, systems, experiences, and culture so that its people and teams flourish, grow, and reach their highest potential.
KC has more than 25 years of executive leadership experience focused on leading internal product development teams. The first half of his career was focused on building supply chain systems in semiconductor companies. At Facebook, he went deep in understanding what enables exceptional performance in organizations and teams and how technology can accelerate it. Then as CIO and head of People Ops at Palantir and most recently as the VP of Engineering at Google, his teams built products that shape culture and people processes.
KC holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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