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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

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post #30

So there will be at least two separate technical organizations within OAI. Pretty small company (HC and product surface wise) for that. Is Brockman now CTO over research specifically or is there going to be a weird dotted line?

Also, best of luck to current statsig customers lol

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

#32

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.

It was almost certainly purchased just for internal usage. See: Rockset

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

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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.

Just look at any media agency (OMG as an example). There are CEOs up the wazoo, one for North America, one for EU etc.

In practice, these are just internal P&Ls.

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

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post #31
post #30

So there will be at least two separate technical organizations within OAI. Pretty small company (HC and product surface wise) for that. Is Brockman now CTO over research specifically or is there going to be a weird dotted line?

Also, best of luck to current statsig customers lol

Like Anthropic

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

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post #15
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's signaling P&L responsibilities. It's not that weird, at least not unheard of at all, just that it's typically done through "EVP" - So EVP Applications, VP of Applications Engineering, etc. - I'm guessing that the line items those "C"s who are not Sam are responsible for, are bigger than most F500 executives, and they're using titles to reflect that reality.

just gonna point out that Google has done this as well and its not so much title inflation as it is just acknownledging the fact that if the unit they command was a standalone business they would well be worth the CEO/CTO title.

Yep. CEO of YouTube, Google Cloud, etc.

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

#37

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.

I'm just sitting here wondering what in the world "Applications" is, is that a subsidiary or what?

A thing that uses a model to have customers.

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

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post #17

1.1 B talent acquisition comp I saw somewhere. That cant be right is it - not sure what the underlying company tech is.

StatSig is a reimplementation of Meta’s analytics and growth systems. The best in the world and how they’re able to enter and dominate markets and scale to billions in under a year.

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

#40

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.

Agreed. There are dozens of startups and established companies providing analytics-y software. The fact that this one is being acquired by OpenAI doesn't make it any more newsworthy to anyone other than the people who are getting some OpenAI equity...
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