Meta Exit Interview — With Mike Schroepfer

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mike Schroepfer is Meta's former chief technology officer and currently a senior fellow at the company. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a look back at his time as CTO: What went well? What could've been better? What changes would he have made in retrospect? Listen for an episode about the challenges of enabling massive scale, both from a technical and societal standpoint.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:05.1	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:08.1	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:10.1	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:12.0	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:19.9	LinkedIn Presents Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:50.7	We are joined today by Mike Shrepford, a senior fellow and former CTO at Facebook, aka META.
0:59.1	This is going to be the first time we ever do a show like this, and I'm really excited about it.
1:04.4	It's going to be exit interview format.
1:06.9	We're going to talk to Shrep about what went right, what went wrong at Facebook, what he can learn from his tenure.
1:12.0	And then I also got a bunch of questions from the exit interview handbook that I promise I will ask.
1:17.7	So stay tuned.
1:18.4	It's going to be fun.
1:19.7	Shrep, welcome to the show.
1:21.2	Thanks.
1:21.8	Excited to be here.
1:22.9	How did you get your nickname?
1:24.1	Were people too lazy to say the whole Shreppford? Because it doesn't sound too
1:27.7	difficult for me to pronounce, or is that something that you, you insisted on? I think, no, I've
1:33.0	definitely not insisted. And Michael was like the most popular name for like 20 years. So I think it was
1:38.8	just, it was in college and there were too many Michaels around. So it was just easier and shorter.
1:45.2	And my very first job out of college was in a big open floor plan. And I remember being like, okay, I'm a professional
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