Mark Zuckerberg is undeniably the best-known exec at Meta, formerly Facebook, as the cofounder and CEO of the tech giant. But perhaps a close second is Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, the company's CTO who has been crucial to its metaverse ambitions.
Facebook in October 2021 rebranded to Meta, a new parent company that encompasses two major businesses. The first is Facebook's traditional business of social media, while the second is Reality Labs, which Meta hopes will build out Zuckerberg's ambitions of turning it into a "metaverse company." Boz founded the AR and VR division at Meta that ultimately became Reality Labs, according to his company profile.
Here's a closer look at how Bosworth went from one of Facebook's earliest employees to one of its top execs leading the charge in building the metaverse: