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OpenAI's tender offer, which would allow employees to sell shares in the start-up to outside investors, remains on track despite the leadership tumult and board shuffle, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC. The round and previously reported valuation were jeopardized by Sam Altman's temporary ouster earlier in November, but his return cleared the way for the tender offer to proceed. The extension of the tender offer comes after a rollercoaster couple of weeks for the company. OpenAI's other major backers include Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital and, following the completion of the tender offer, Thrive Capital. Founders Fund will not participate in the tender offer either, a person familiar with the firm said.
Persons: Sam Altman, Josh Kushner's, Sam Altman's, Altman, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D'Angelo, Nadella, — CNBC's Ari Levy, Jordan Novet, Elon Musk Organizations: Economic Cooperation, APEC, CNBC, Microsoft, Employees, Brockman's, Tiger Global, Fund, Sequoia Capital, Bloomberg Locations: Asia, San Francisco , California, OpenAI
Salesforce shares jump on better-than-expected earnings report
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Ari Levy | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Salesforce shares rose more than 8% in extended trading on Wednesday after the cloud software vendor reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that topped analysts' estimates. Here's how the company did:Earnings: $2.11 per share, adjusted, versus the $2.06 per share expected by LSEG$2.11 per share, adjusted, versus the $2.06 per share expected by LSEG Revenue: $8.72 billion versus the $8.72 billion expected by LSEGRevenue increased 11% from $7.84 billion a year ago. In its biggest unit, which provides customer support, Salesforce saw revenue jump 12% to $2.07 billion. Salesforce shares rose to $250 after the earnings report. WATCH: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: When I talk to CEOs they are all Slack-first
Persons: Marc Benioff, Salesforce Organizations: Economic Cooperation, APEC, LSEG, LSEG Revenue, Nasdaq, Revenue Locations: Asia, San Francisco , California
Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, the startup said early Wednesday morning on X, formerly known as Twitter. The move follows immense pressure from employees and investors on the board that ousted him less than a week ago. Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join OpenAI's board, the Microsoft-backed startup said, with Taylor holding the chair position. Adam D'Angelo, co-founder and CEO of question-and-answer startup Quora, will remain on the board. That followed an announcement late Sunday that OpenAI had hired ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as Altman's interim replacement.
Persons: Sam Altman, Salesforce, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Taylor, Adam D'Angelo, OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, Altman, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, Emmett Shear, Mira Murati, msft, Nadella, Sam, Greg, OAI Organizations: OpenAI, Twitter, Microsoft, Tiger, Sequoia Capital Locations: openai
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC's Jon Fortt on Monday that the governance structure of OpenAI needs to change, three days after the sudden firing CEO Sam Altman. Early Monday morning Nadella said that Altman, Brockman and their colleagues would join Microsoft as part of a new AI research group. That post followed news that ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear had been named OpenAI interim head as Altman looked to depart. Nadella told Fortt that Microsoft respects OpenAI's nonprofit roots and shares its belief that AI needs to be developed and rolled out in a safe manner. WATCH: A timeline of the drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft
Persons: Satya Nadella, CNBC's Jon Fortt, Sam Altman, Nadella, Altman, OpenAI, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Emmett Shear, Fortt Organizations: Microsoft, Tiger, Sequoia Capital
Jensen Huang, president of Nvidia, holding the Grace hopper superchip CPU used for generative AI at the Supermicro keynote presentation during Computex 2023. When Nvidia reports fiscal third-quarter results Tuesday, analysts are expecting to see revenue growth of over 170%. Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, Wall Street will be closely scrutinizing the company that's been at the heart of this year's artificial intelligence boom. In particular, the emergence of AMD in the generative AI market presents a new dynamic for Nvidia, which has mostly had the AI graphics processing unit (GPU) market to itself. "NVDA needs to forcefully counter the narrative its products are too expensive for generative AI inference," the Bank of America analysts wrote.
Persons: Jensen Huang, that's, Lisa Su, Raymond James, OpenAI's, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Emmett Shear, Satya Nadella, Altman, Greg Brockman, Jensen, Eric Jackson Organizations: Nvidia, " Bank of America, AMD, Bank of America, FactSet, LSEG, Microsoft, Cailian Press Locations: China, OpenAI
Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch, in a Bloomberg Television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. OpenAI is bringing in former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to run the artificial intelligence company, two days after the sudden ouster of Sam Altman, CNBC has confirmed. Unlike most Silicon Valley startups, OpenAI wasn't structured like a typical corporation with large chunks of equity controlled by the founders. Shear stepped down as CEO of Twitch, the livestreaming service now owned by Amazon , in March. — CNBC's Ari Levy contributed to this reportWATCH: Madrona's Matt McIlwain talks Sam Altman's departure as OpenAI CEO
Persons: Emmett Shear, Twitch, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Shear, Altman, Mira Murati, didn't, Murati, — CNBC's Ari Levy, Matt McIlwain, Sam Altman's Organizations: Bloomberg Television, CNBC, Bloomberg, Microsoft, Tiger, Sequoia Capital, Amazon, OpenAI Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S
Tech investors are marching towards Thanksgiving with plenty of holiday cheer. It's the strongest rally over that amount of time since April 2020, when early Covid stay-at-home requirements led to a surge in e-commerce and cloud software stocks. Intel was the biggest winner among large-cap tech stops this week, climbing 13%. Semiconductors will be the primary area of focus next week for tech investors, as Nvidia is scheduled to report results on Tuesday. WATCH: EMJ's Erick Jackson expects good earnings report from Nvidia
Persons: they're, Eric Jackson, Jackson, Dow Jones, Tesla, Elon Musk, Andrew Bates, EMJ's Erick Jackson Organizations: Nasdaq, Intel, Mizuho Securities, Nvidia, EMJ Capital, Federal, Index
Longtime Salesforce executive Denise Dresser has been appointed CEO of Slack, Salesforce co-founder and chief executive Marc Benioff announced Monday. Dresser becomes the third CEO of the Salesforce unit since it was acquired by Salesforce in 2020. She has been a Salesforce executive for more than 12 years, according to her company biography and LinkedIn profile, most recently as president of accelerated industries. Dresser will take the top job at Slack after its most recent CEO, Lidiane Jones, accepted the chief executive role at dating app Bumble earlier this month. Most notably, Slack founder Stewart Butterfield and Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor departed in the span of two weeks in December 2022.
Persons: Technology Denise Holland Dresser, Casey Hurbis, Shilpa Sharma, Denise Dresser, Slack, Salesforce, Marc Benioff, Dresser, Lidiane Jones, Jones, Bumble, Whitney Wolfe, Benioff, Denise, Arthur Andersen, Stewart Butterfield, Bret Taylor, Butterfield, — CNBC's Ari Levy, Jordan Novet Organizations: Communications, Media, Technology, Rocket, Boston Consulting, Salesforce, CNBC, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Oracle, Big Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Salesforce
The WeWork logo is displayed outside of a shared commercial office space building in Los Angeles, California on August 8, 2023. The bankruptcy filing is limited to WeWork's locations in the U.S. and Canada, the company said in a press release. The company reported liabilities ranging from $10 billion to $50 billion, according to a bankruptcy filing. Valued in 2019 at $47 billion in a round led by Masayoshi Son's SoftBank, the company tried and failed to go public five years ago. The company leases millions of square feet of office space in 777 locations around the world, according to its regulatory filings.
Persons: WeWork, Patrick T, Fallon, PATRICK T, FALLON, David Tolley, Masayoshi Son's SoftBank, Adam Neumann, Neumann, Kirkland, Ellis, Cole Schotz, PJT, CNBC's Ari Levy Organizations: Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Getty, New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, PJT Partners, C Street Advisory Group, Alvarez, Marsal Locations: Los Angeles , California, AFP, New Jersey, U.S, Canada
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, speaks during a keynote at the Dreamforce 2023 conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Salesforce announced in a Tuesday social media post that the business software maker's Dreamforce conference for customers and partners will remain in San Francisco for one more year. In an X post of his own, Benioff said San Francisco is "now the AI capital of the world." Salesforce used this year's Dreamforce conference to show off AI capabilities integrating with technology from Anthropic and OpenAI. San Francisco reported 620 accidental drug overdose deaths in 2022, down from 640 in 2021 and 725 in 2020.
Persons: Marc Benioff, Salesforce, Sam Altman, Benioff Organizations: Salesforce.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Google, Oracle, Police, CNBC, London, Golden State Warriors, Banana, Nordstrom, Foods, CNBC PRO Locations: San Francisco, Salesforce, Francisco's, Francisco, Anthropic
Bankman-Fried testified that he wasn't aware of the amount Alameda was borrowing from FTX, or its theoretical max. Prosecutors entered corroborating materials, including encrypted Signal messages and other internal documents that appear to show Bankman-Fried orchestrating the spending of FTX customer money. Similarly, Bankman-Fried testified that he believed the lavish Bahamas properties were being paid for with FTX operating cash that came from revenue and venture investments. The market had already dropped 70% and if it fell another 50%, he was afraid the firm would be insolvent, Bankman-Fried told the jury. In September, he checked in again with Ellison about the hedging activity, Bankman-Fried testified.
Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, Fatih Aktas, that's, Caroline Ellison, Mark Cohen's, Cohen, FTX, Danielle Sassoon, District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Jane Rosenberg, , Ellison, Sam, Nishad Singh, Gary Wang, Prosecutors, who'd, Michael M, Bankman, wasn't, Alameda, Singh, Shorter, Dawn Giel Organizations: Federal Court, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Alameda Research, U.S, District, Reuters, Stanford University, Alameda, Facebook, Google, Santiago Locations: New York, United States, Manhattan, Bankman, Alameda, Bahamas, New York City, U.S
Alphabet's earnings sailed past Wall Street estimates after the markets closed on Tuesday. In Alphabet's earnings report, Wall Street fretted over the numbers out of the Google Cloud division, which is investing heavily to try and catch Amazon and Microsoft , particularly when it comes to managing hefty artificial intelligence workloads. The concern from Facebook parent Meta was sparked by comments that CFO Susan Li provided on the earnings call regarding the advertising market in the fourth quarter. Alphabet shares are down by about 12% over the past two days, while Meta has dropped roughly 7%. In emphasizing the potential business impact of war in the Middle East on its business, Meta spelled out those concerns to shareholders.
Persons: Meta, Ruth Porat, Susan Li, Li, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Joe Biden, Mark Avallone, CNBC's, skittishness, You've, Avallone, trashing Organizations: Nasdaq, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Amazon, The Commerce Department, Hamas, Guggenheim, Potomac Wealth Advisors, YouTube Locations: what's, U.S, Ukraine, Potomac
The $3.5 billion range ($36.5 billion to $40 billion) compares to a $2.5 billion range the company typically offers in its quarterly revenue forecast. Susan Li, Meta's finance chief, told analysts on the earnings call that the reason for the change is the unpredictability in the Middle East due to the Israel-Hamas war. At the mid-point of its guidance range, Meta would be expecting revenue of $38.25 billion, compared to the average analyst estimate of $38.85 billion, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. For the third quarter, Meta beat on the top and bottom lines, boosting its shares in extended trading on Wednesday. Meta's commentary surrounding the Middle East conflict, which escalated this month after Hamas attacked Israel, follows cautionary statements from Snap on Tuesday.
Persons: Susan Li, Li, Meta, Joe Biden Organizations: Meta, White Locations: Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Gaza
Prosecutors in the criminal trial against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried compared one of the defense's arguments to a scene in the 1994 film "Dumb and Dumber," in which actor Jim Carrey says IOUs are "as good as money." Funds also allegedly went to paying for things such as a $35 million property in the Bahamas and political donations. Customers were ultimately unable to retrieve much of their money as FTX and Alameda were simultaneously imploding. In a footnote, the prosecution writes, "A popular movie from the 1990s illustrates the point: a briefcase, once filled with money, is not the same as a briefcase later filled with IOUs." In "Dumb and Dumber," when the briefcase reaches its owner, it's filled with paper.
Persons: Sam Bankman, Jim Carrey, IOUs, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who's, Carrey, Jeff Daniels, transact, Lloyd Christmas Organizations: Prosecutors, FTX, Manhattan, Southern, of, York, Alameda Research Locations: Manhattan, New York City, Colorado, Bahamas, Alameda
Tech stocks are following up their worst month of the year with a rough start to October as a spike in interest rates pushes investors out of risky assets. Like most tech stocks that were viewed as growth engines during the Covid-19 pandemic, Airbnb rallied in 2021 — just after its Nasdaq debut — and then sank last year. It has bounced back in 2023 but rising interest rates and ongoing concerns about high energy prices and the potential for a recession have investors rotating out of the stock of late. Among mega-cap tech stocks, Amazon suffered the steepest drop, falling 3.7% to $124.72. Amazon is coming off its worst month since February as the company faces the potential of a disappointing holiday shopping season and a massive antitrust lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission.
Persons: it's, Airbnb, Organizations: Nasdaq, KeyBanc, Treasury, Federal Reserve, Amazon, Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, Meta
After a 21-month tech IPO freeze, the market has cracked opened in the past week. Chip designer Arm debuted last Thursday, followed by grocery-delivery company Instacart this Tuesday, and cloud software vendor Klaviyo the following day. They're three very different companies in disparate parts of the tech sector, but Wall Street's reaction has been consistent. Instacart popped 40% immediately after selling shares at $30. But the lack of excitement over the past week — amounting to a collective "meh" across Wall Street — is certainly not the desired outcome either.
Persons: Arm, Eric Juergens, Plimpton, Juergens, Japan's SoftBank, Fidji Simo Organizations: Investors, Debevoise Locations: Klaviyo
Klaviyo priced 19.2 million shares late Tuesday at $30 a piece, valuing the company at just over $9 billion on a fully diluted basis. Of those shares, 11.5 million were sold by the company, resulting in $345 million in cash added to the balance sheet. Instacart and Klaviyo are trying to crack open a tech IPO market that's been virtually shuttered for 21 months. The e-commerce software vendor owns roughly 11% of Klaviyo's shares, and invested $100 million in the company last year. — CNBC's Annie Palmer contributed to this reportWATCH: Klaviyo follows Instacart in tech IPO down rounds
Persons: Andrew Bialecki, Ed Hallen, Instacart, Arm, Japan's SoftBank, Klaviyo, Shopify, Bialecki, , Annie Palmer Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Inc, Nasdaq, Klaviyo's, CNBC Locations: Weds, U.S
Instacart shares rose 12% in their Nasdaq debut on Tuesday after the grocery delivery company's long-awaited IPO. The stock initially popped 40% to open at $42, but closed at $33.70 as investors locked in their initial gains. At $11.2 billion, Instacart is valued at about 3.9 times annual revenue. Food delivery provider DoorDash , which Instacart named as a competitor in its prospectus, trades at 4.1 times revenue. Uber's stock trades for less than three times revenue.
Persons: Instacart, Andreessen Horowitz, Rowe Price, company's Uber, Fidji Simo, CNBC's Deirdre Bosa, It's, Brandon Leonardo, Maxwell Mullen, Apoorva Mehta Organizations: Nasdaq, Software, Kroger, Costco, Sequoia, Fidelity, Target, Walmart Locations: Tuesday's, U.S, Amazon
Instacart, the grocery-delivery company that saw its business boom during the pandemic, priced its long-awaited IPO at $30 a share on Monday, and will become the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021. There were 22 million shares sold in the initial public offering, with 14.1 million coming from the company and 7.9 million from existing shareholders. Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta owns shares worth over $800 million, and is selling a small portion of them in the IPO. The company said co-founders Brandon Leonardo and Maxwell Mullen are each selling 1.5 million, while Mehta is selling 700,000. Former employees, including those who were in executive roles as well as in product and engineering, are selling a combined 3.2 million shares.
Persons: Instacart, Andreessen Horowitz, Rowe Price, Apoorva Mehta, Mehta, Fidji Simo, Simo, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Brandon Leonardo, Maxwell Mullen Organizations: Nasdaq, Kroger, Costco, Sequoia, Fidelity, Target, Walmart, Facebook, JPMorgan Locations: Amazon
That's more than 75% below where Sequoia and Andreessen invested in early 2021. At that time, Instacart sold shares at $125 a piece for a $39 billion valuation. The 400,000 shares it purchased in 2021 are a small sliver of the 51.2 million shares it owns. Neither Sequoia nor Andreessen participated in that round. Even if Instacart's IPO can't lift its valuation anywhere near its Covid-era peak, it's likely that Sequoia, Andreessen and other venture firms are hoping it helps lift public investor enthusiasm for new tech stocks.
Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Instacart, Andreessen, Covid shutdowns, Nick Giovanni, Sequoia's Mike Moritz, Rowe Price, It's, haven't, VCs, DoorDash, hasn't, there's, isn't, Valiant Peregrine Organizations: Sequoia Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Federal Reserve, Consumers, Nasdaq, Sequoia, Valiant, D1 Locations: Sequoia, IPOs, U.S, Instacart, SoftBank
That's more than 75% below where Sequoia and Andreessen invested in early 2021. At that time, Instacart sold shares at $125 a piece for a $39 billion valuation. The 400,000 shares it purchased in 2021 are a small sliver of the 51.2 million shares it owns. Neither Sequoia nor Andreessen participated in that round. Even if Instacart's IPO can't lift its valuation anywhere near its Covid-era peak, it's likely that Sequoia, Andreessen and other venture firms are hoping it helps lift public investor enthusiasm for new tech stocks.
Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Instacart, Andreessen, Covid shutdowns, Nick Giovanni, Sequoia's Mike Moritz, Rowe Price, It's, haven't, VCs, DoorDash, hasn't, there's, isn't, Valiant Peregrine Organizations: Sequoia Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Federal, Consumers, Nasdaq, Sequoia, Valiant, D1 Locations: Sequoia, IPOs, U.S, Instacart, SoftBank
Arm CEO Rene Haas and executives cheer, as Softbank's Arm, chip design firm, holds an initial public offering (IPO) at Nasdaq Market site in New York, U.S., September 14, 2023. Arm's Nasdaq debut on Thursday looks good for SoftBank, which just spun the company out after acquiring it in 2016. The UK-based chip design company saw its stock jump 25% to $63.59 after its IPO, lifting the company's fully diluted market cap to almost $68 billion. For now, there's not a big open market for Arm's stock. Of the $4.9 billion worth of shares SoftBank sold, $735 million were purchased by a group of strategic investors including Apple , Google , Nvidia, Samsung and Intel .
Persons: Rene Haas, Jay Ritter, there's, SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, We've, CNBC's David Faber, Matt Oguz, it's, , Oguz, Kif Leswing, SoftBank's Masayoshi, Arm's Rene Haas Organizations: Nasdaq, Wall, Nvidia, Semiconductor, U.S, University of Florida, Apple, Google, Samsung, Intel, Venture Science, AMD Locations: New York, U.S
As some high-valued tech startups look to the long-dormant IPO market for their next funding round, Databricks is still finding investors that are happy to keep the company private, at least for now. Databricks, which sells data analytics software, said Thursday that it raised more than $500 million in fresh capital at a $43 billion valuation. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Databricks last announced funding during the boom market of 2021, at a $38 billion valuation. However, unlike fellow software IPO candidates Canva and Stripe, Databricks has managed to maintain its share price. In the latest round, shares were sold at $73.50 a piece, roughly equal to where they were priced in 2021.
Persons: Databricks, Snowflake, Ali Ghodsi, Headcount Organizations: Nvidia Locations: San Francisco, Databricks
Birkenstock, the iconic sandal maker founded in 1774, filed its paperwork for an initial public offering on Tuesday, and warned investors of the risks posed by counterfeit brands that use social media to promote their products. "In the past, third parties have established websites to target users on Facebook or other social media platforms with 'look alike' websites intended to trick users into believing that they were purchasing Birkenstock products at a steep discount," the filing said. "Should counterfeit products be successfully sold on e-commerce platforms managed by third parties, our brands and reputation could be damaged." Seven years ago, Birkenstock publicly quit Amazon in the U.S. due to an eruption of counterfeit and unauthorized sales on the site. The company also said at the time that it would no longer allow authorized Birkenstock merchants to sell on Amazon.
Persons: Birkenstock Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Facebook, Amazon Locations: Germany, London, U.S
Oracle shares plummeted 12% on Tuesday, their steepest drop in over two decades, after the software maker reported disappointing revenue and issued weaker-than-expected guidance. For the current quarter, Oracle said revenue will increase 5% to 7%, falling short of the 8% average analyst estimate. Revenue in Oracle's cloud services and license support segment rose 13% from a year earlier, topping StreetAccount's consensus of $9.44 billion. But sales in the cloud license and on-premises license segment fell 10% to $809 million, missing estimates. Even with Tuesday's stock drop, Oracle shares are up 34% year to date, beating the S&P 500, which is up 16%.
Persons: Larry Ellison, Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Stifel, Safra Catz, Catz, — CNBC's Jordan Novet Organizations: Oracle, Forbes, Amazon, Human Capital Management Software, Revenue
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