📖 Facebook's Tech Chief: How We Built It and Where We're Going

Transcript of my conversation with Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook

This is a transcript of my conversation with Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer. Listen to the full conversation on your platform of choice or on our podcast page. The transcript is open to members only.

Mike Schroepfer, or Schrep, is the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook and one of the world’s most powerful and accomplished technologists. He has built the infrastructure that powered Facebook's incredibly rapid expansion from a few million users to a staggering 2.7 billion today. He's also an evangelist for two technologies at the core of Facebook’s long-term ambitions, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

I have been a bit of a skeptic about virtual reality, but I had a chance to play around with the Oculus Quest 2, the new headset that Facebook has released, and I’m pretty impressed. So we explore what role VR might play as a platform in computing’s future.

AI is, of course, a key technology of the Exponential Age, and Facebook’s AI Research Lab has made s…