Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on moving Facebook to the metaverse

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Technology, Business

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Facebook announced a major corporate rebrand by changing its company name to Meta. The new name is meant to solidify the social media giant’s longterm bet on building the metaverse. On this episode of Decoder, vice president of Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth talked with The Verge’s Alex Heath about Facebook’s rebrand to Meta, how content moderation will work in the metaverse, and the hardware journey from virtual to mixed reality, and eventually, AR glasses. Links: Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta Facebook is spending at least $10 billion this year on its metaverse division Eight things we learned from the Facebook Papers Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22517027 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Andrew Marino and we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Epitale, editor and chief of the Verge. Decoder
0:06.0	is my show about big ideas and other problems. On this episode we're doing something a little
0:11.2	different. A couple weeks ago, Verge Senior Reporter Alex Heath had a gigantic scoop that
0:16.6	Facebook would be changing its name, which led to what I would only describe as a
0:21.1	friends leave speculation. This week, Facebook changed its name. It changed its name to
0:26.1	Meta. Officially, that's the name of a whole company. The Facebook app still exists. It's
0:30.4	still called Facebook. Instagram, WhatsApp still exists. They're all just part of a company
0:34.0	that is now named Meta. And the reason for that is Mark Zuckerware wants to focus on building
0:38.7	what he calls the Metaverse. Last week, Alex had a chance to sit down with Mark Zuckerberg
0:43.4	and talk about the new name that ran on the Verge.com. And this week, on Decoder, he's
0:47.2	talking to Andrew Bosworth on a Facebook's most powerful and longest tenured executives
0:52.6	soon to be CTO of the company now called Meta. We wanted to share that with you. And Decoder
0:57.7	Alex is with me. Hi, Alex. Hey, Neely. So you interviewed Andrew Bosworth. Most people
1:02.6	call him Bos. You call him Bosie and you just lagging at for everybody. What should
1:06.4	I be listening for here? I think the first thing is while Bos has had a lot of influence
1:11.7	inside the company, formerly known as Facebook for a while, his background is fascinating. He's
1:17.4	been a big part of Facebook's history since practically the beginning dating back 15 years.
1:22.8	He helped build the original newsfeed, Facebook groups, messenger, and its mobile ads business.
1:28.7	He's been leading its AR and VR division for the past few years, which now has more than
1:33.3	10,000 employees. And his remit is only going to grow when he becomes the CTO of Meta next
1:39.8	year. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including what he thinks about the recent
1:44.6	leaks of internal company documents called the Facebook papers, a bit of the backstory
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