Facebook Loses Ads Product Director Gokul Rajaram To Square
Facebook’s ongoing revamp of its advertising will have to go on without its leader, as Ads Product Director Gokul Rajaram is leaving the social network to join Square, the electronic payments startup founded by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey, as product engineering lead.
Facebook’s ongoing revamp of its advertising will have to go on without its leader, as Ads Product Director Gokul Rajaram is leaving the social network to join Square, the electronic payments startup founded by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey, as product engineering lead.
Square said in a release that Rajaram will lead software development for point-of-sale system Square Register and other products.
Prior to Facebook, Rajaram was co-founder of Chai Labs, which was acquired by Facebook in August 2010, and product management director for Google AdSense.
AllThingsD reported that Facebook already has a successor to Rajaram in place: Mike Hudack, former CEO of Blip, who had been working under Rajaram, mostly on measurement.
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