{"id":944696,"date":"2025-07-08T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944696"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:25:25","slug":"former-openai-exec-says-team-building-is-like-solving-puzzle-the-teams-that-ive-helped-build-are-a-team-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/08\/former-openai-exec-says-team-building-is-like-solving-puzzle-the-teams-that-ive-helped-build-are-a-team-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Former OpenAI exec says team building is like solving puzzle: \u2018The teams that I&#8217;ve helped build are a team of\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former OpenAI executive Peter Deng believes that building the right team is like solving a complex puzzle \u2014 every piece must fit perfectly. Now a general partner at Felicis Ventures, Deng shared his views on leadership, team-building, and hiring during a recent episode of Lenny\u2019s Podcast. Speaking at the podcast, Deng compared strong teams to the Avengers, where each member brings a different \u201csuperpower\u201d to the table. &#8220;The teams that I&#8217;ve helped build are \u2014 the most successful ones are a team of Avengers that are just very different, have very different superpowers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Deng is known for his work on major consumer tech products, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Facebook Messenger, and Uber Reserve. At OpenAI, he played a key role in shaping the user experience of AI tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former OpenAI executive Peter Deng believes that building the right team is like solving a complex puzzle \u2014 every piece must fit perfectly. Now a general partner at Felicis Ventures, Deng shared his views on leadership, team-building, and hiring during a recent episode of Lenny\u2019s Podcast. Speaking at the podcast, Deng compared strong teams to the Avengers, where each member brings a different \u201csuperpower\u201d to the table. &#8220;The teams that I&#8217;ve helped build are \u2014 the most successful ones are a team of Avengers that are just very different, have very different superpowers,&#8221; he said. Deng is known for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}