Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook at the age of 19 in his Harvard dorm room. The tech billionaire said the first thing he noticed when he arrived in Silicon Valley was that most of the leaders there had no technical expertise.

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Mark Zuckerberg has always tried to create a management team that includes many leaders who came from engineering. Photo: Axios

“The CEO is not an engineer, there’s no engineering on the board, they just have one guy on the executive team who’s the head of engineering,” Zuckerberg said. “If that’s your team, you can’t call it a tech company.”

Zuckerberg said he tried to do things differently at Facebook, now Meta. “I always wanted more ‘techies’ on my management team. It was a bunch of smaller teams, but the people who led those teams mostly had different technical expertise at the company,” the founder said.

For example, Meta's CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth created Facebook's News Feed and leads the company's Reality Labs division, responsible for AR, VR, and metaverse projects, and has been with the company since 2006.

Product manager Chris Cox came to Meta in 2005 as a software engineer and built early versions of the News Feed, among other features.

While Meta's chief executive emphasizes technical expertise, he adds that it's not the only important skill for running a tech company.

“Of course you don't want everyone to be an engineer because there are other things that are important, but if the ratio of engineers to technology is not at a certain level, you can't call it a technology company.”

(According to BI)

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