After more than four years, Fidji Simo is in her final few weeks as Instacart’s outgoing CEO, assisting incoming CEO Chris Rogers with the transition. And before the end of 2025, she’ll have officially settled into her big new role as CEO of Applications at OpenAI, reporting directly to founder Sam Altman. The French-born businesswoman and former Facebook executive remains Chair of the Board at Instacart, whose recent $10 billion IPO she oversaw.
Amid all that career shifting, Simo and her husband Remy Miralles have found time to move into a Los Angeles house. Perched on a prime corner lot in the low-key but decidedly affluent Westwood neighborhood, the newly-built structure sold for $8.2 million, records reveal, and it offers all the high-end amenities buyers at this price point have come to expect.
Built with a clear nod to the trendy modern farmhouse style, the mini-estate features six bedrooms and 6.5 baths in 6,500 square feet of living space spread out between a two-story main house and a wee detached ADU that’s squirreled away in the backyard. There’s a double-height living room, large windows throughout, and the 10,000-square-foot lot is fully gated for privacy and security.
Readers might be interested to know that before it sprouted a more contemporary mansion, the Westwood property previously held a 1930s Spanish Hacienda with a cozy 2,300 square feet of living feet and a bathroom drenched in decidedly memorable tilework.
Sadly for fans of throwback Spanish-style L.A. homes, that place and its cacophony of tile are long gone. In its stead are clean lines, white oak floors, elegantly neutral color schemes, and the proper array of Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances.
Home highlights include a double-height living room with floor-to-ceiling windows and a granite leather fireplace, plus a kitchen with Taj Mahal stone countertops and an upstairs primary bedroom slathered in walnut wood. The primary suite is rounded out with a mostly porcelain bathroom and private balcony overlooking the backyard. Al fresco amenities include a compact lawn, a saltwater swimming pool and multiple dedicated lounging areas centered around a barbecue station, a fire-pit and such.
Naturally, the entire property is equipped with state-of-the-art Control4 home automation—the cameras, lights, sound system and even the window shades can be operated and monitored from around the globe. Perfect for a jet-setting corporate executive who’s always on the go.
And as far as we know, this is Simo and Miralles’ first L.A. house. The couple previously owned a luxury home in the Bay Area town of Los Gatos, which they sold in 2022 for $6.1 million.
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