Statsig CEO on Scaling Product Impact with AI - After $1.1B OpenAI Deal | Viyaje

In this episode, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia interviews Vijaye Raji, Founder and CEO of StatSig, the fast-growing product experimentation platform recently valued at $1.1 billion following a $100M Series C round—and just acquired by OpenAI in a landmark $1.1B all-equity deal.

Before the acquisition, Vijaye spent over a decade at Facebook, where he served as VP and Head of Entertainment, launching creator tools, livestreaming features, and the earliest version of Reels. That experience inspired him to build StatSig, a platform that empowers product teams to experiment, iterate, and ship with confidence—used by leading companies like Microsoft and Notion.

Now, as OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer of Applications, Vijaye will oversee product engineering for ChatGPT and help accelerate the company’s enterprise roadmap. In this conversation, he shares the original vision behind StatSig, the tough lessons from going multi-product, and why AI-native experimentation is the future of product building.

Timestamps
00:26 – 🚀 From Facebook to founding Static: BJ’s journey.
04:12 – 🎯 Product-market fit: a continuous, evolving process.
12:39 – 🔑 How startups and enterprises adopt new product tools.
17:24 – 📈 Product-led growth and usage-based pricing explained.
23:58 – ⚖️ Balancing core development (75%) with experimentation (25%).
28:17 – 💻 Why BJ still codes as a CEO.
31:42 – 🤖 Four big opportunities for AI in product development.
37:09 – 🌟 The future: self-healing, self-optimizing products.
41:55 – 🧠 Intuition vs. data: what really drives innovation.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Vijaye Raji is the Founder and CEO of Statsig, a platform simplifying data-informed product decisions for modern teams. With over two decades in tech, he previously spent 10+ years at Facebook, where he led major initiatives including Facebook Gaming, Marketplace, and Entertainment, and served as Head of Facebook Seattle, scaling the office from a handful to over 5,000 employees. Earlier, he held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft. Vijaye combines deep technical expertise with visionary leadership to build impactful, scalable products.

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