Rohan Varma leaves OpenAI, where he led Codex product after Cursor

Varma, Cursor's first product manager before leading Codex at OpenAI, gave no next employer and said he will return to work after a few days off.

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Varma is one of the few product leaders to have run AI coding products at both Cursor and OpenAI's Codex, after founding venture-backed startups of his own.

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Rohan Varma (@TheRohanVarma) has left OpenAI, ending a short run on the Codex team that he described as spanning three or four company evolutions in a single tenure.…

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