Mike Schroepfer, the extremely well regarded VP Engineering at Mozilla, is now Facebook’s Director of Engineering.
He’ll be heading up Facebook Platform and the main product front end, he said by telephone this morning, although his exact scope of responsibility hasn’t been nailed down yet. He will report directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg starting in September.
Schrep, as he is known, headed up the engineering team within Mozilla responsible for Firefox. Before that he was the CTO of Sun Microsystem’s data center automation division (responsible for the highly ambitious N1 project). In order to become a leading Internet platform, Facebook needs to inject more open-source DNA into its engineering ranks. Schrep should help it do that.
Since Mozilla won’t IPO, it could face more defections of top talent over time.
TechCrunch as a micro-blogging platform is working well – love these short posts!
Jesus, sounds like an 8 year old wrote this. How many readers will TechCrunch need before Michael runs his posts by another set of eyes?
Mike,
You guys should separate the longer posts from the micro-blog posts. Some stories I want to read a lot about but when I click on them only get a blurb. Just some suggestions.
Rob
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thanks for sharing.
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It’s true. Zuckerberg has already began commenting on the news.
Yes It’s true
It’s always to companies’ benefits to acquire the good people. Even if they cost more money.. http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Facebook is a talent magnet and continues to deepen the strength of the team. more details on this hire here: http://facereviews.com/2008/07.....firefox-vp
facebook..open source?
fwiw, facebook uses open source technology (eg LAMP stack) quite heavily, and has released a few key pieces of technology built in-house (eg thrift, cassandra) as open source. see http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php
Hmm, from previous CTO and VP Engg position to Dir of Engg at F8, a step down then?
Seems like a step down to me coming from previous VP Engg and CTO positions
let see what he can do for facebook
so will we be seeing a facebook browser soon? what’s the “strat” here. poach all these mozilla dudes, ….., profit?
I know why google is doing this…they are coming up with their own browser… GBrowser
sucks to have to report to 24 year old college dropout
as opposed to a 60 year old college drop out?
That would be a ‘thieving’ 24 year old college dropout. Whoops I forgot they settled that lawsuit for an undisclosed sum…
yep lol
Seems like a good catch for FB. Good luck with the new job.
I’ll be sad to see Schrep go, he was a great leader and a great guy to have around the office. Best of luck in your new position!
Facebook top management is now fully populated by google’s Trojan horses. We know mozilla and google mingle like milk and honey, google being homepage and search default in firefox. Google now owns facebook management by majority, new kind of acquiring!
“Since Mozilla won’t IPO, it could face more defections of top talent over time.”
I’m confused how this has any impact? Just because a organisation wont offer an IPO doesn’t mean that employees are going to leave, the company if great shape and continues to grow, what real benefit would an IPO offer?