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Re: Meh.
I guess none of us know her motivation for leaving, but she seems to have a history of being a do gooder. From the CNET article:
Jepsen is no stranger to charitable causes. She was a co-founder of the One Laptop Per Child, an initiative that aims to provide low-costlaptops to children in developing countries, as well as lead inventor and architect of the $100 laptop.
mhhf1ve
5/9/2016 10:36:12 AM User Rank Platinum
Meh.
Sounds like just a normal "I'm done with this project" move to me. The "curing diseases" part is just some PR euphemism. Going to work on another wearable tech project is probably a far less stressful job than staying at FB and trying to make Oculus into a viable revenue stream for a social media platform....
Re: facebook exec
@mpour: I think we all realize by now that mega-companies can wither and die.
Unless, of course, they're in an industry deemed important enough to qualify for a bailout. ;)
Re: 'tever
If VR is going to be more than a cute trick for consumers to play with, it's got to get to work on things that make it essential to other businesses. Making the advances in medical imaging of the last 40 years easily available at the small-and-remote clinic level certainly qualifies as a shrewd business initiative.
Making it sound like anything other than a simple choice of target market, however, is merely good corporate PR. The next frontier might be military or police, i.e. killing more people or controlling more dissent via remote; it might be better circuses to go with the bread; it might be better control for hazardous-environment drones to get human bodies out of fighting fires and deep rock mining; almost anything, really. This particular frontier just happens to lend itself to a successful PR initiative.
batye
5/9/2016 2:37:52 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: facebook exec
@mpouraryan thank for the link, interesting to know...
batye
5/9/2016 2:37:12 AM User Rank Platinum
Re: Reality check?
@srufolo1 we never know but at least she is trying... and it very important...
Re: 'tever
Walking away though is courageous--and yes if it means a lucrative business opportunity, more power to her.
Re: facebook exec
This is another Profile in Courage as I see it just as this one I saw--hopefully I'll be able to be in a position to do some good someday!!
Please enjoy:
http://fortune.com/2016/05/02/venture-capitalist-quits-to-become-middle-school-math-teacher/
:))
clrmoney
5/7/2016 10:39:48 AM User Rank Platinum
facebook exec
Well good for her doing that because to me facebook is destructive the only pluus side about it that it is good for marketing and advertising business etc.
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