Episode

From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products

Peter Deng, General Partner at Felicis and former VP of product at OpenAI who also led product at Instagram, Uber's Rider team, Facebook's News Feed and Messenger, Airtable, and Oculus, shares lessons from building products from zero to billions of users. He discusses why the product itself sometimes matters less than the underlying operations, the importance of precise language in product work, and how AI will reshape education and give startups new ways to build defensibility through data flywheels.