While everyone was talking about whether ChatGPT would put product managers out of work, it hired a new product owner.
On June 1, Peter Deng, ChatGPT's new product lead, announced LinkedIn his official joining of OpenAI as "Vice President of Consumer Products" on June 1, writing, "I am excited to lead the outstanding product, design, and engineering teams behind ChatGPT with the goal of making AI useful, accessible, and beneficial to everyone." ”
In other words, the ChatGPT app that everyone went crazy about the other day, everything related to it will be handed over to Peter Deng in the future.
There are not many reports on the Internet about OpenAI, the new Chinese executive, and combined with LinkedIn and some existing information, Peter Deng's past resume is very exciting.
Peter Deng received his bachelor's degree in symbolic systems science from Stanford University and his master's degree in media studies and communication.
He started his career at Google. He joined Google in 2006, a period of rapid expansion — after going public in 2003, Google acquired YouTube in 2006 and DoubleClick in 2007.
In 2007, Peter Deng left Google to join Facebook, the most popular social platform at the time, as director of product management. He has been with Facebook for nearly 10 years. During this time, he was involved in the development of products including Facebook Messenger, Chat, Events, News Feeds and Groups, and is arguably one of the people behind Facebook's success.
In 2013, the year after Instagram was acquired by Facebook, Peter Deng began as head of product for Instagram. Instagram had only about 50 people at the time, and Peter Deng helped grow Instagram to hundreds of millions of users in two years.
Also the year after Oculus was acquired by Facebook, in 2015, Peter Deng served as Oculus' head of product, where he was responsible for the development of VR and other related technologies and the formation of the product team.
In 2017, Peter Deng ended his career at Facebook and joined Uber as global head of shared mobility products, leading nearly all of Uber's consumer product efforts and helping Uber go public.
After nearly 4 years at Uber, Peter Deng joined Airtable, a cloud collaboration service platform, and helped Airtable successfully raise $10 billion.
Until Peter Deng announced his joining OpenAI.
OpenAI's AI big language model ChatGPT, released at the end of last year, took the world by storm in just a few months, and many people are looking forward to the addition of Peter Deng, a technology master.
Josh Constine, who has been in contact with Peter Deng, tweeted, "He is a legendary figure who has led products such as Instagram, Messenger, Oculus and Airtable. But the reason we consider him very lucky to be in charge of ChatGPT is because he is also a loving, hands-on father of a 4-year-old. The energy of a good father is exactly what we need to guide AI. ”
He went on to say, "The next technological age must be built on compassion. I was honestly relieved to hear that Peter had taken the job, one of the smartest and most genuine people I know. ”
Bo Ren, who worked with Peter Deng on Instagram, also commented, "He is a deep philosophical thinker, and we need the kind of human-centered product leader to lead us into the AI era." ”
One netizen's review also provided another perspective, "I hope that more companies will start to realize the importance of product people, not just salespeople." ”
Another quipped, "Does ChatGPT know about this?" Does it still think Peter still works on Airtable? ”
Although ChatGPT is currently the most advanced generative AI big language model on the market, it has also been criticized for possible biases, privacy and security risks, lack of humanization, and inaccurate data. For Peter Deng's joining, some netizens still expressed concern.
@Daniel: So he (Peter Deng) is an expert in mining and manipulating people's data (?) ）
@Civaxo: The products he developed (Facebook, Instagram) ended up being heavily abused, causing damage and confusion. Artificial intelligence is more powerful, and hopefully he can do better.