Ryan Peterman

And then, especially, it was a great example of how curry growth can actually happen, which is,

I was on the team, and then all of a sudden, almost all the senior engineers left the team in the span of six months.

And then I went from being like, and at the point, maybe I was already in IC5 when they all left.

I'm not sure.

But I went from being one of the people on the team building experimentation tools to the only one who remembered how anything worked left.

And suddenly, I went from being sort of random IC5 to de facto TL for a bunch of stuff.

which was actually an amazing opportunity for growth.

And I think people understate how often these things can happen in tech.

But it meant that I wound up really being able to drive a bunch of the vision for the A-B testing tools for years, which were hugely successful at Meta.

And it really was some of the most fulfilling work I ever did at Meta.

Yeah, I mean, I think one of the things that's actually kind of mind-blowing to me is, like, you know, actually, it's one of these decisions where maybe I did make bad career decisions, which is, like, as far as I can tell, every time I've ever looked at it, the Statsig product, which I now don't know what its state is after they got put open AI, is just, like, is deltoid.

This is one of the things where, like, you know, stuff in meta, when you've been in meta, you work on these things, like, awesome, and there's data soaring.

But when people are like, what's Dataswarm?

I'm like, it is literally Airflow.

And it's not like metaphorically Airflow.

Like the guy who wrote Airflow built Dataswarm, quit, and like a week later, open sourced Airflow.

And the Deltoid is like not quite the same because it's not the same people left and built Statsig.

But my perception is that for most people who will be watching this, if they've ever seen Statsig, my perception is that like almost the entire UI is the same.

Almost all the functionality is the same.

That's one of these things where I probably should have built a stultoid startup many years earlier and I did not have the wisdom to do that.