Who the heck is Vijaye Raji?
Some ex-facebook employee who developed a product for ... guess what - tracking users activity on websites to provide "analytics".
Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
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#62Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
#63So 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?
Data/ML and Apps split seems pretty normal to me, even in a company of ~20. What makes a group of coworkers into "an org"? That they don't attend one-another's retros?
> What makes a group of coworkers into "an org"?
Reporting lines that ladder up to a line in the P&L.
Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
#64Can someone ELI5 what Statsig actually is? Their landing page is full of gems like "Turn action into insights and insights into action" and "Scale your experimentation culture with the world's leading experimentation platform" so I have no clue. It appears to be another analytics + A/B testing platform, but surely that can't be worth $1.1B to OpenAI?
I'm of the opinion that the marketing gimmicks that we see on some products but ends up either being acquired big or gets those big elusive contracts, is that they did those messaging on purpose to steer the general onlooker something else. However, their internals or when a customer talks to, say, the founders, they would narrate and then show such things that are 100x better than what we see in the open.
Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
#65Hats 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…
It gives Statsig a lot more room to explore how our cursor movements and keystrokes can train LLMs to emulate humans browsing the web, you mean?
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Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
#66Can someone ELI5 what Statsig actually is? Their landing page is full of gems like "Turn action into insights and insights into action" and "Scale your experimentation culture with the world's leading experimentation platform" so I have no clue. It appears to be another analytics + A/B testing platform, but surely that can't be worth $1.1B to OpenAI?
A buzz word driven company with a product meant to track users, their mouse movement, keyboard usage across the internet. Of course to help make the world a better place .... for shoving advertisements.
Tell me you've never used Statsig without telling me you've never used Statsig. It's an online controlled experiment platform. You know like when you want to figure out if a blue button gets more clicks than a red button or a green button, and you want to avoid the situation of some tech-bro calculating the average clicks on all 3 groups and going "this one is higher, so it must be better" because they have zero background in statistics and don't know how to correct for multiple comparisons or what power analysis is, etc.
Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
#67Who the heck is Vijaye Raji?
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Re: Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
#68Hats 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…
Really? I never heard of them.
Meanwhile Optimizely is a new partner in our agency portfolio.
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#691.1 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.
StarSig had $40 million of revenue.
Hardly billions.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
A buzz word driven company with a product meant to track users, their mouse movement, keyboard usage across the internet. Of course to help make the world a better place .... for shoving advertisements.
Tell me you've never used Statsig without telling me you've never used Statsig. It's an online controlled experiment platform. You know like when you want to figure out if a blue button gets more clicks than a red button or a green button, and you want to avoid the situation of some tech-bro calculating the average clicks on all 3 groups and going "this one is higher, so it must be better" because they have zero back…
So it's an A/B testing platform?