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Vijaye Raji (Credit: Courtesy of Statsig)

Vijaye Raji has taken his fair share of leaps in his decades-long career. “I like to jump off cliffs without parachutes,” he told Fortune.

Born in India, he flew across the world to Seattle in the early aughts to take a job at Microsoft as a software engineer. Then, he jumped ship in 2011 to Facebook (now Meta) before it had gone public. And after a decade at the social media giant, he decided to bet on himself. “I don't want to go to a large company. I don't want to go to a startup,” he said. “I want to do my own.”