I was Facebook's youngest engineer. I left Meta at a moment when AI's lead can change every few months.

"After the 2008 recession, my parents and I got evicted. That forced me, at 13, to figure out how to make money online. I taught myself to code from YouTube tutorials. I built a word game called 4 Snaps. It hit number one on the App Store and made enough money to help keep my family afloat."

"Zuckerberg flew me out to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park when I was 17 for a one-on-one meeting on campus. He wanted to learn how I'd built my top-charting social apps in high school. That was our first meeting, and he ended up offering me a job. I became what I think was Facebook's youngest software engineer at the time."

"AI is shrinking the gap between one builder and a full team. Sayman left Meta's Superintelligence Labs for Whop, betting this is another App Store moment for creator commerce and individual entrepreneurship."

Michael Sayman, a former Meta executive, began coding at 13 after his family's eviction during the 2008 recession. He taught himself programming through YouTube tutorials and created a word game that reached number one on the App Store, generating income to support his family. At 17, Mark Zuckerberg recruited him as Facebook's youngest software engineer. After years at Meta, including work in Superintelligence Labs, Sayman joined Whop as President of Product Ecosystems. He believes AI is democratizing product development by enabling individual builders to accomplish what previously required entire teams, positioning this as a transformative moment comparable to the App Store revolution.

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