Facebook CTO leaving company to build future start-up
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor announced today that he will be leaving the company later this summer to start a new business with friend and Google App Engine founder Kevin Gibbs.
Director of Engineering Mike Vernal and Director of Mobile Engineering Cory Ondrejka will continue to lead in his absence, AllThingsD reports. Taylor, who joined the company as director of platform products through its acquisition of FriendFeed in 2009, became CTO in 2010, not long after the introduction of the Open Graph Protocol.
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