Andrew Bosworth AKA Boz, an advertising expert for Facebook, gives a talk at the Online Marketing Rockstars marketing trade show in Hamburg, Germany, 03 March 2017. Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Meta technology chief Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, one of Facebook’s earliest employees, wrote on his personal blog over the weekend that the company was more focused in its initial days, and he described some of the problems that come with getting big.
In a post titled “Focus,” Bosworth contrasted the years of startup life, when he got little sleep, kept a poor diet and had “no hobbies,” with the mature company that has many people weighing in on product features and enough money to pay for less important things.
“Resources and time were so tight that you could feel the weight of all the things you weren’t working on,” wrote Bosworth, who started the post by saying he was “something like” the 10th engineer at the company. “You had real conviction that the thing you were doing was the most important thing.”
Bosworth’s post landed just days before Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings reports, which is scheduled to land after the close of trading on Wednesday. The company is expected to report its third consecutive quarterly sales drop, with analysts projecting another decline in the first quarter. Meta lost two-thirds of its value last year.
Bosworth was promoted to CTO in 2021, replacing Mike Schroepfer, who had been with the company since 2008. Bosworth is overseeing Meta’s ambitious and costly endeavor to develop the digital world of the metaverse, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said will define the company’s future.
While he acknowledged that he doesn’t miss startup life, “I do miss the profound sense of focus,” Bosworth wrote.
With limited money and resources, “we were constantly tight on servers, on memory, and on bandwidth,” he said.
But over time,…
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