“I’m looking forward to working with Mark and the rest of the Board on the many opportunities and challenges ahead. “It’s been inspiring to watch Facebook grow into a platform that reaches billions of people around the world,” Houston said in a statement provided by Facebook. Houston won’t be the company’s lead independent member, however, and Facebook is still looking for Desmond-Hellmann’s replacement, a company spokeswoman said. Houston will be the board’s eighth member, and the first to join since lead independent director Sue Desmond-Hellmann left last October. “He thinks deeply about where technology is going and how to build a culture that delivers services that always work well.” “Drew brings valuable perspective to our board as a leader of a technology company with services used by millions of people and businesses,” Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg’s iron-clad authority over the company is one of the central issues each year at Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting. Still, Facebook’s dual-class stock structure means that Zuckerberg has a controlling ownership stake in Facebook, putting the board’s actual influence in question. “How do you organize people? How do you set up these systems?”Īs a director of the world’s largest social-media company, Houston will be responsible for advising Zuckerberg. “He’s given me a lot of advice on company scaling,” Houston told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in 2015. distributed work Drew Houston Dropbox future of work Apps Meta says it is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger Ivan Mehta 10:18 PM PST FebruNo company is. Houston has in the past turned to Zuckerberg for help running his own company. Houston, who co-founded file-sharing software company Dropbox in 2007, is a friend of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston is joining Facebook Inc.’s board.
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