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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more.

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Innovate or Die: Using Technology to Avoid the Retail Graveyard

The Product Coalition

by Sergey Kizyan, CTO, Intetics Oh, how the mighty have fallen. According to a recent report from Coresight , there have been 6,986 store closures so far this year. Gymboree’s Chief Restructuring Officer James Mesterharm actually admitted that the company’s web systems were “dated and unsupported.” is RadioShack.