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A red flag in a Facebook exec's goodbye letter shows there's bad blood over Mark Zuckerberg's radical privacy plan
Jake Kanter
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https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-the-red-flag-in-chris-cox-goodbye-letter-to-staff-2019-3
Facebook on Thursday announced that its chief product officer, Chris Cox, and Chris Daniels, the head of WhatsApp, were leaving the company.
A telling line in Cox's goodbye letter suggests there were significant disagreements over Mark Zuckerberg's plan to pivot Facebook to privacy.
This was backed up by a report in The New York Times, which said there were frustrations over Zuckerberg's vision for the company.
Facebook sprang a surprise Thursday when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that another of his key lieutenants was leaving the company.
Following the departure of senior executives such as the Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Zuckerberg said the company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, was headed for the door after 13 years. Chris Daniels, the head of WhatsApp, is also leaving.
Soon after everything was official, Cox published his goodbye letter to staff on his Facebook page. On first read, it's an ode to his good times at the company, in which he praises the senior management team and calls Zuckerberg a "dear friend."
In the comments below, there are glowing tributes from Zuckerberg ("It's been an honor and I'm deeply grateful"), Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg ("We are a better company for what you have given"), and the company's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer ("I'll deeply miss seeing you").
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But there's a telling line in Cox's letter signaling disagreements over the direction Zuckerberg is taking Facebook— namely, its pivot to privacy and encryption, which the CEO set out in a manifesto last week.
Here's the key part of Cox's note:
"As Mark has outlined, we are turning a new page in our product direction, focused on an encrypted, interoperable, messaging network.
"It's a product vision attuned to the subject matter of today: a modern communications platform that balances expression, safety, security, and privacy.
"This will be a big project and we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through."
This final sentence is revealing. Saying that Zuckerberg's vision will need people who believe in the direction of travel implies that Cox is not among them.
Indeed, The New York Times reports that there were "disagreements" over Zuckerberg's plan, which in essence will combine the back ends of WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram messaging to create an interoperable messaging service, protected by end-to-end encryption.
Citing six sources, The Times reported that Cox "disagreed with some of Mr. Zuckerberg's product ideas and changes, including the 'unified messaging' project intended to connect the apps."
This was echoed by Ben Horowitz, the cofounder of the influential Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Horowitz's partner, Marc Andreessen, is a Facebook board member.
Horowitz tweeted that the departures of Cox and Daniels showed there was "extremely strong dissent" over Zuckerberg's vision for Facebook. He added that it's a huge change of direction and that it "is quite clear that the decision was massively controversial."
SEE ALSO: Chris Cox, a key Facebook exec and lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company amid a huge reshuffle
How Burbn became Instagram!!!!!
Kevin Systrom changed his major at least five times while in college before settling on investment science, so perhaps his post-grad flip-flopping shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.
After working briefly at Twitter and Google, Kevin Systrom opted to launch his own project, Burbn, in 2009. The app was a check-in service similar to Foursquare, and let users leave messages for friends at different locations. Systrom and his co-founder Mike Krieger reportedly raised $500,000, led by Andreessen Horowitz, for the project, but it didn't take off like the founders had hoped.
The following year, Systrom and Krieger applied some of the location and mobile sharing features to a photo app, which they called Instagram. That app attracted 25,000 users in its first day. Instagram was acquired by Facebook for $730 million last year and currently has more than 100 million users.
"It's a hard decision to make," Systrom once said about pivoting. "If it's the right thing, it will happen. You have to be flexible enough to give yourself the opportunity to fall into these other opportunities."
Here is a video of Burbn now Instagram:
Posted 18th June 2013 by Mateo Fowler
Labels: Andreessen Horowitz Burbn business Google Instagram Kevin Systrom Mike Krieger startup technology Twitter
http://mateotech.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-burbn-became-instagram.html
Notice this same Horowitz name in this article in the Facebook article
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Dustin Moskovitz is one of the co founders of Facebook. He is an internet entrepreneur. After quitting Facebook, he co-founded Asana along with Justin Rosenstein. Dustin was Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate at the University. He was the 3rd Employee of Face Book. He had to quit face book as he wanted to start another software firm. He is ranked 54 in the Forbes 400. In the year 2011, he was the World’s Youngest Self Made Billionaire.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is known for his simple lifestyle. He spends a lot of time and money in philanthropic activities. He has donated money for many charity activities.
Moskovitz is part of Giving Pledge, an initiative by Bill Gates. He loves to help for good cause and never gets tired in doing something for the same.
In the year 2004, Dustin co-founded Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. He moved to California along with Mark Zuckerberg to work full time for Face Book but he had to leave the company in the year 2008.
Dustin Moskovitz invested in a mobile photo sharing website PATH. The site is run by David Morin who was also a member Face Book. He has investments in 7 different companies. Dustin Moskovit feels that billionaires like him are piled up with a lot of money that belongs to the world. He also feels that is not very easy to flush out the money to the world in a meaningful way. He along with his wife then formed Good Ventures, that works very closely with Give Well.
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Moskovitz Parents – Unknown
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Moskovitz Spouse- Cari Tuna
Cari Tuna is Dustin Moskovitz’s wife. She is a reporter for Wall Street Journal. She is the co founder of Good Ventures along with her husband Dustin Moskovitz.
https://www.celebfamily.com/internet/dustin-moskovitz-family.html
Wonder if there is any connection of Rod Rosenstein and Justin Rosenstein.