Sam Altman stood on a stage in Seoul last month and smiled for cameras. Back in San Francisco, his finance team was quietly hiring the people you bring on when you're about to go public: a chief accounting officer named Ajmere Dale, a corporate business finance officer named Cynthia Gaylor, someone to run investor relations. The photo ops were for the press. The hires were for Wall Street.
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