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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

According to a recent report from Coresight , there have been 6,986 store closures so far this year. The company didn’t even offer an online shopping option until 2006, and even then, it was a “ship-to-store” only site. —?now dead. That exceeds the total number for all of 2018. Another doomed retail giant?—?one is RadioShack.