Gigascale's Mike Schroepfer: "From building Meta to investing in climate"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on MIke Schroepfer, Meta’s former CTO, to talk about why he left Meta (3:00), growing up working his parents’ radio station (9:00), going to Stanford (12:00), getting into tech startups (14:15), the dotcom boom (17:15), going to Mozilla (21:15), joining Facebook when MySpace was bigger (23:00), Mark Zuckerberg (26:30), lessons from scaling to a giant company (31:40), the climate opportunity (35:10), focussing on hardware (39:40), using his money (43:30), the talent influx (44:40), the AI moment (47:30), and his climate tech predictions (51:05)

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0:00.0	Hello you. It's Glow Time on Magic Radio.
0:05.6	Join me, Gokwan, at breakfast.
0:08.5	With me, Harriet Scott.
0:10.3	We're on Magic Radio with Nikki Chapman, Gabby Roslyn, and me, Mel Gedroich.
0:15.7	And what a team we are.
0:19.1	We're all on Magic Radio, playing the the best variety from the 80s to now.
0:25.2	It's Glow Time on Magic Radio.
0:31.6	Yo,
0:33.8	Technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:37.4	What's funny is how much history gets rewritten
0:41.1	you know at the time in 2008 like all my friends told me not to join they're like don't
0:46.4	join don't join facebook hmm this has been my experience over and over again like everything
0:51.3	that's successful like went through many moments when we're like, this thing's dumb, right?
0:55.6	It's like was the common wisdom.
0:57.8	And it's not obvious until it's obvious, right?
1:21.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
1:23.5	This week, we have a treat for you.
1:29.9	Mike Shrepfer, also known as Shrep, to his friends and colleagues, is our guest.
1:37.7	And Shrepfer, some of you may recognize, because for more than a decade, he was the CTO of META.
1:45.2	During that time, he grew the engineering ranks from just 150 people to more than 35,000. And obviously, the Facebook empire grew from, you know, a few tens or hundreds of millions to more than three billion
1:50.8	people. So few people in the world have his experience or expertise when it comes to
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