Fri. 03/15 - Does Chris Cox’s departure from Facebook mean the pivot is real?

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, March 15th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today, does Chris Cox's departure from Facebook mean the pivot is real.
0:14.0	Apple responds to Spotify's complaint and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:19.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox is leaving the company. Another Chris, VP of
0:35.4	what's-app Chris Daniels, is leaving as well, but it's the departure of the first
0:39.8	Chris, Chris Cox, that caused Silicon Valley to do a collective double take late yesterday.
0:47.0	Chris Cox is Facebook's chief product officer.
0:50.0	He's in charge of all the products.
0:52.0	He's one of Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted
0:55.2	lieutenants and confidants. They vacation together. Chris has been
0:59.7	integral at Facebook for so long. He was one of the first 15 software engineers hired at the company.
1:06.0	He was instrumental in the very creation of the news feed.
1:09.0	Many, many people assume that if Mark Zuckerberg ever stepped down from the CEO role, it would likely
1:15.8	go to Chris Cox.
1:18.5	Now, a lot of us had heard for many months now that Cox had wanted to move on to greener pastures a couple
1:24.4	years ago, but then came the 2016 election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the rumor
1:29.9	was Cox was taking one for the team, staying on to wait for a moment when it wouldn't look like
1:35.1	he was abandoning a company in crisis. But now, if anything, his departure solidifies the
1:41.8	realization of something else entirely.
1:44.6	Count me as being among the skeptical about the whole pivot to privacy thing.
1:50.3	On first glimpse, I thought it was a clever PR positioning move at best but increasingly
1:56.1	over the last week or so I'm coming to realize that yes this is indeed a completely
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