Ryan Peterman

Oh, yeah.

People ask me this so much over the years, especially as I became like a more senior manager and then a director.

But I like, you know, have a keen answer because I've been asked this a million times.

I, for, like, my first several years had Javi as my skip.

For people who don't know him, he's currently, I think, the COO of Meta.

But, you know, he was first the head of growth and then the head of growth and ads.

And then I think now he runs, like, roughly 50% of Meta.

But, like...

Javi was my skip.

And every time my actual manager, this guy named Danny, would be like, Javi wants people to come to his office hours.

No one shows up.

And he feels like it's a waste of his time.

Someone should go.

And I basically just was like, well, I don't have anything like actually that valuable to say to Javi.

So I'm just going to waste his time.

And I don't want to be the person who wastes his time.

So I never went.

And I look back and I'm like.

because especially as I started running office hours is I had a larger work where I couldn't do like one-on-ones with everyone and had to do office hours and people wouldn't go.

And I was like,