> Steve comes to us most recently from Twitter, where he spent eight months as a Vice President of Product for their Machine Learning and Data platforms. Prior to that, Steve led Product Management, Design and Research in Facebook’s Infrastructure organization. He also spent almost 14 years at Microsoft where he was responsible for the Windows third-party software ecosystems and held leadership roles in Windows IoT, Visual Studio and the Technical Computing Group.
This guy is sounding like bad news all around. I want the CPO to be someone with a strong tech background and I mean actual tech not tech bro. This guy's resume reads like a list of out of date buzzwords. This is another MBA suit that is going to make FF worse not better, mark my words.
The bar for “actual tech” must be extremely high if Twitter-scale ML, Facebook-scale infrastructure and Microsoft IDEs and Technical Computing group don’t count.
... under which it becomes a lot more obvious what OP is referring to. "Actual tech" in the older, "Technology will transform the world for good!" sense, rather than, "Let's use technology to make the most money possible, fuck it," sense.
That one made me laugh. Their "ML" can't even detect crypto scammers impersonating Elon Musk despite them using exactly the same name, profile picture and replying using very predictable texts that a basic regular expression can pick up.
It's probably in their financial interests to not clamp down too hard on crypto considering how much the crypto chuds love Twitter. I get so much 'like' spam from verified (how the fuck?) crypto scammers.
I'm curious what one can actually accomplish in 8 months in that role. I don't blame Steve for jumping around and probably getting a huge raise in the process - I see it happen all the time with the "leaders" in my organization who show up, say they're excited to learn, pitch a few ideas, make some sweet connections, and then are on to their next post 9 months later.
But I do blame the companies for repeatedly falling for these kinds of people.
> This is another MBA suit that is going to make FF worse not better,
I don't think Borland had Delphi and C++ Builder developed by "MBA suits".
Yeah, he might have morphed since then... I still think of him as one of the guys behind Delphi, but it's been damn near a quarter century since he left Borland. But denying he has any real tech chops is just way wrong.
This guy is sounding like bad news all around. I want the CPO to be someone with a strong tech background and I mean actual tech not tech bro. This guy's resume reads like a list of out of date buzzwords. This is another MBA suit that is going to make FF worse not better, mark my words.