Laura Modiano
Founder Experience at OpenAI
28 May 2026etn. Live at Panathenea
Laura Modiano: OpenAI's New Founder Experience Role
Laura Modiano explains her newly created Founder Experience role at OpenAI, arguing AI has compressed every step of company building and that a LinkedIn stat showing a 60% jump in people calling themselves founders means OpenAI must proactively support day-one through scaled founders. She covers how her team supports founders selling into enterprises (over a million companies building on OpenAI), the feedback-led loop she wants OpenAI to run, and her founderxfeedback.com experiment that drew a few hundred responses within hours. She closes on her belief in startups pushing AI adoption across every vertical, her Greek roots, and an upcoming panel with her 10-year-old daughter.
23 Nov 2025etn. - LIVE from Slush
OpenAI's Laura on backing startups and VCs across EMEA
Laura, who partners with VC funds, accelerators and startups across EMEA from OpenAI's London office, joins for her seventh Slush. She describes the startup team's expansion across London, Munich and Paris, the AI accelerator OpenAI runs with Endeavor in Greece, and argues Europe's STEM graduate base makes this a genuine moment for founders. Romain rejoins to share advice for young builders and preview what's next: new agentic coding models on top of GPT-5.1 and developers shipping apps inside ChatGPT via MCP.