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Peter Deng

General Partner @ Felicis

Former VP Consumer Product at OpenAI (ChatGPT), first Head of Product at Instagram, CPO at Airtable.

“The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products, covering AI product work, product design, and team leadership.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
FelicisGeneral Partner2025-present
OpenAIVP, ChatGPT~2023-2024
AirtableChief Product Officer~2021-2023
MetaVP of Product (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook)~2008-2021

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“But it's also interesting because then that it goes further, it show further though. The whole system has to change. Because again, I still believe that human brains are inherently inquisitive and tha...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“I think that's right. And I have some more thoughts on just sort of the companies that are building on top of LLMs that are just... That's a slightly different thing I would say. I think that for them...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“Yeah. Well, it's, again, this is something we can unpack for a long time. Because with any product that you want to build, there's going to be incumbents that have distribution advantages. But I do ha...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“... have distribution advantages, but I do have this thesis that there are certain products that will be able to break through those advantages of the distribution of the other companies, but you have...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“Being very mindful of the data that you have access to to start your flywheel going and what you can do to keep on going with that flywheel is going to be a critical thing for anyone who's starting a ...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“This is where I see again startups in very different markets who have this insight, who understand this very deeply, and are not just trying to zero shot everything and be like, "No, no, no. This is h...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“That is going to be amazing because as a consumer of any of these products, we're going to benefit.”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“This goes back to something I might've mentioned briefly, but you got to have grit when you're building anything. You got to be able to have that vision, have that clear direction, and be able to real...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“I do believe there is a level of product craft that will make it so that it's just worth it to switch or try something else. There are a few products out there that I see with this. I think Granola is...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“There's so many distribution advantages that Google Meet has, that Google, Facebook started off, Microsoft Teams has, Zoom has, but they're just these tiny little product craft delightful things that ...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“They have these little edges, set it down just right, and they've really figured out a way to really make it so delightful that it's like, "Yeah, I will install this piece of software. Yes, 100% I wil...”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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“Yeah. I couldn't have put it better myself.”
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From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

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