Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

Nscale 在潜在 IPO 前任命前 OpenAI 高管 Fidji Simo 加入董事会

Nscale, the buzzy U.K.-based AI data center startup, has appointed former OpenAI, Meta, and Instacart executive Fidji Simo to its board. Simo joins high-profile tech executives Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker, and Nick Clegg on Nscale’s board ahead of the startup’s anticipated IPO this fall.

总部位于英国的 AI 数据中心初创公司 Nscale 近期备受关注，该公司已任命前 OpenAI、Meta 和 Instacart 高管 Fidji Simo 加入其董事会。在 Nscale 预计于今年秋季进行 IPO 之际，Simo 将与 Sheryl Sandberg、Susan Decker 和 Nick Clegg 等知名科技高管共同进入董事会。

Formerly CEO of AGI deployment at OpenAI, essentially the No. 2 executive at the AI lab, Simo left the company in July citing health reasons. She still advises the company on a part-time basis. Before OpenAI, Simo was chair and CEO of Instacart, where she led the company through its 2023 IPO. She also spent more than a decade at Meta, including as head of the Facebook app. Simo also sits on Shopify’s board.

Simo 曾担任 OpenAI 的 AGI 部署首席执行官，实际上是该 AI 实验室的二号人物，她于 7 月以健康原因为由离职，目前仍以兼职身份为该公司提供咨询。在加入 OpenAI 之前，Simo 曾担任 Instacart 的董事长兼首席执行官，并带领该公司完成了 2023 年的 IPO。她还在 Meta 工作了十多年，曾担任 Facebook 应用负责人。此外，Simo 目前也是 Shopify 的董事会成员。

Nscale’s founder and CEO, Josh Payne, said Simo is one of the few leaders who understand what it means to scale products used by billions of people and the demands those products place on the underlying systems. “That’s what we’re building for at Nscale,” he said in a statement. “Fidji joins a board we’ve built deliberately, with the experience of scaling platforms to the largest in the world, and the independence, financial rigor and operating depth to which companies at this scale are held.”

Nscale 创始人兼首席执行官 Josh Payne 表示，Simo 是少数几位真正理解“扩展数十亿人使用的产品”意味着什么，以及这些产品对底层系统有何要求的领导者之一。他在一份声明中说道：“这正是我们在 Nscale 所追求的目标。Fidji 加入了我们精心组建的董事会，她带来了将平台扩展至全球规模的经验，以及这一规模的公司所必需的独立性、财务严谨性和运营深度。”

Nscale’s valuation has skyrocketed since it was founded just two years ago on the back of booming demand for AI infrastructure. The startup, which designs, builds, and operates AI data centers, is reportedly trying to raise up to $3.5 billion ahead of a planned IPO, Bloomberg reported last week, citing unnamed sources.

得益于对 AI 基础设施的旺盛需求，Nscale 自两年前成立以来，估值一路飙升。据彭博社上周援引匿名消息人士报道，这家从事 AI 数据中心设计、建设和运营的初创公司，正计划在 IPO 前筹集高达 35 亿美元的资金。