Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 3, 2024

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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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. So being a pretty amazing entrepreneur, he decided to set that event up. And he decided pretty quickly that he wanted someone that ran events to come in and do it.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. I did see a question about Jeff Bezos Yes, Jeff Bezos owns a small piece of Basecamp, which we sold him in 2006.

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