Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

You were basically the 10th engineer at Facebook. I imagine there was a lot of pain and suffering that people don't often hear about. I didn't sleep for more than four hours at a time. I'd wake up every four hours and check The report and to see if anyone was attacking the site. They don't tell you about that stuff in the movies. You worked 120 hours per week. You had no hobbies. I don't want to take away from the romanticism of it. It's just that it's most often we hear those romantic stories from the successes. It's a healthy thing for people to want to throw themselves into something and take that risk, but it is not glamorous like at the time. The newsfeed. That was one of your early projects. At Facebook, people did not want it. They were wrong, clearly. Now newsfeed was an easier case than people suspect. Everyone was outraged at the same time as they immediately doubled their usage of the product. In terms of the economic utility, the Venn diagram of Boz of Newsfeed and ads create a trillion dollars of value. Today my guest is Andrew Bosworth, or Boz, as most people know him. Boz is the chief technology officer of Meta.

He joined what was then called Facebook in early 2006 as one of the first engineers, and during his 18 year tenure at Meta. He created some of the most impactful and important products in internet history. including the Facebook newsfeed, which was the first ever algorithmically ranked content feed of any social network. And it's basically what people think of as Facebook today. He also built the original Facebook mobile apps platform, which he then ran for another four years. He also helped build and scale the Facebook messaging system, the profile.

The timeline Facebook groups And even the internal engineering boot camp. Most recently he served as VP of Ads and Business Platform, where he led engineering, product, research, analytics, and design. And in 2017, he created the company's AR VR organization, now called Reality Labs. These days Andrew leads Meta's efforts in AR, VR, and mixed reality. Along with consumer hardware across Quest, Rayband Meta Smart glasses, and more.

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