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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

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Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#21

Are we supposed to post every blog/news post of OpenAI and keep fueling the AI hype? I think at this point people should know that OpenAI is just like any other company.

This seems like a big shift for OpenAI into an enterprise applications vendor to me.

What else could they have been? Microsoft didn't give them $10bn to build out their B2C homework autocomplete service.

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#23
How come this acquisition gets to go through, but Windsurf didn't? There might be antitrust review here too, and Microsoft might also lay a claim to Statsig's IP due to their contract with OpenAI. Maybe Statsig didn't care that Microsoft would have access to the IP?

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#24

The CTO of applications reporting to CEO of applications (who reports to the actual CEO) is kinda weird? I figure you're either the actual CTO or you're not a C-level exec and should have another title. Just more title inflation I guess. Maybe in same way you see VPs of X everywhere in some organizations we'll be starting to see CEO/CTO of X lower and lower down the org chart.

“CTO” makes sense as a signal that “the buck stops here” for technical issues. They are the highest-ranking authority on technical decisions for their silo, with no one above them (but two CEO’s above them for business decisions)

If Mira Murati (CTO of OpenAI) has authority over their technical decisions, then it’s an odd title. If I was talking with a CTO, I wouldn't expect another CTO to outrank or be able to overrule them.

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#25
post #9

OpenAI is going to start competing with a ton of SAAS companies. I think we are going to see products 10x better than legacy saas products, many companies wont be able to compete.

I mean they can try. They’re not gonna be very good at it

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#26

Hats off to Statsig. They built a stellar product. Superior to many of their industry competitors like Optimizely. Back when I was on an internal Experimentation platform, we were impressed how they balanced dev velocity & stat rigor https://www.statsig.com/updates These guys ship. Business-wise, I think getting acquired was the right choice. Experimentation is too small & treacherous to build a great business, and t…

At peak amplitude's market cap was 10B

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#27
post #23

How come this acquisition gets to go through, but Windsurf didn't? There might be antitrust review here too, and Microsoft might also lay a claim to Statsig's IP due to their contract with OpenAI. Maybe Statsig didn't care that Microsoft would have access to the IP?

Windsurf didn't not go through because of regulatory or MSFT issue – that was always a fig leaf. OAI walked.

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

#28

The CTO of applications reporting to CEO of applications (who reports to the actual CEO) is kinda weird? I figure you're either the actual CTO or you're not a C-level exec and should have another title. Just more title inflation I guess. Maybe in same way you see VPs of X everywhere in some organizations we'll be starting to see CEO/CTO of X lower and lower down the org chart.

“CTO” makes sense as a signal that “the buck stops here” for technical issues. They are the highest-ranking authority on technical decisions for their silo, with no one above them (but two CEO’s above them for business decisions) If Mira Murati (CTO of OpenAI) has authority over their technical decisions, then it’s an odd title. If I was talking with a CTO, I wouldn't expect another CTO to outrank or be able to overr…

It would be quite strange indeed for Mira Murati to have a say over their technical decisions, considering she does not work for OpenAI :)

Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

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post #22

curious to hear people's experience using Statsig

Curious to hear about how they feel about many key StatSig people walking away, and Vijaye going to lead a different product. OpenAI bought it for internal use. They plan to put the public-facing product into more of a maintenance mode.
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