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Too bad I'm not 10 years older, I'd make a great Head of Facebook News. I have perfect balance of respect & disrespect for both media and FB
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Instead, I'm sure the hire will be in template of evolving tech: break the mold, become status quo, then fight to maintain that status quo.
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As a geek, most personally depressing part of startupland is no matter how "disruptive" they start off, they end up like old corporations...
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The startups end up just continuing to reiterate the social, financial, and strategic mistakes of the companies they replaced.
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In the end Google becomes Apple, Apple becomes Microsoft and Microsoft becomes IBM. 20% time inevitably becomes matrix management.
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You know what would be really disruptive? A startup that wasn't aiming to become world corporate overlord. *sigh*
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But nah, I'm sure hiring someone who has been Media for longer than Facebook has existed will create an innovative and forward future.
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In startupland building the future just means adding gloss and optimization to the inequities of the past and having great PR about it.
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Nothing has been more depressing as a Millennial than coming to the realization that "Don't be evil" was just savvy branding.
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Anyway, if you're at FB & want someone to tell you how you f**ked up & how to fix it, you've got my phone & all the rest of my personal info
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There is no emoji for a fatalistic winky face, but you can imagine one here. Here's a close as I can get: