Curious Facebook related query

Observations from the hinterlands

Quora is a privately-held company, located in Palo Alto, California. It was founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam d'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

Quora raised two rounds of private financing to-date. Peter Thiel and Jeff Hammerbacher are investors, among others. TechCrunch's CrunchBase has some information regarding Quora's multiple funding rounds.

Why is this relevant?

Bret Taylor was the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook. He announced his intention to depart the company in mid-June 2012, approximately one month after the Facebook initial public offering on the NASDAQ in May 2012. As of June 20, 2012, Mr. Taylor was no longer listed on the Facebook website as a member of the management team, nor on the board of directors, nor anywhere else. There have been no subsequent announcements from Facebook regarding his status, although I have not done an EDGAR search to confirm.

At present, the position of Facebook CTO is vacant. Adam d'Angelo is the former Chief Technology Officer of Facebook. And THAT is why this is relevant. Who is in charge of Information Technology for Facebook?

Quora recruiting ad at Stanford in 2008

I perused the Investor and Company Management sections of the Facebook website. I noticed that all information technology activities were now under the supervision of the Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Eberhardt who isn't even a CPA.

Might Adam d'Angelo resume his former role as CTO? 

Anything should be better than having a purportedly Silicon Valley technology company for which the entire IT and development staff report to the chief financial officer!

A timeline of Ellie and Facebook-relevant events 

I did two, well, possibly silly things. First, I wrote a draft of this, with a charming MS Paint organizational chart, intending to write an Instablog entry over on Seeking Alpha. I didn't get around to publishing it though, which was for the best.

Next, I decided to send a Quora Mail message to Adam d'Angelo, and just ask him if he would be returning to lead Facebook as CTO. I received no reply, but was not banned for my impudence. The date of my message was July 2012.

What is the purpose of this post?

I am curious. Someone with more information than I might find this useful, or be able to satisfy my curiosity.

Disclosure and Disclaimer

Quora is a question and answer website. I have a Quora account and am a casual user.

I am not an attorney, nor a CPA. I am not licensed to make investment recommendations. I am merely Ellie, a Jewish widow from the hinterlands.

Hello, RMB. I found my way here via reddit absolutist NRx and then Bionic Mosquito's recent 'Missing Link' blog post. 

You have been more than fair in comparing the deaths of Tony Timpa and George Floyd, then describing the disproportionate reaction to the latter's death by nearly every part of society e.g. our legislators, academics, public health authorities (e.g. CDC declared that systemic racism and white supremacy is a greater threat than COVID-19 in June 2020), literati, corporations, clergy, K-12 educators, and of course, our news media. 

I would go farther though. Tony Timpa INITIATED the call to 911. He acknowledged that he hadn't taken his medication for schizophrenia and depression and needed help. I will not contrast his situation with the circumstances of George Floyd's death. The salient point is that extinguishing the life of Timpa was of no significance to the powers that be. His life was clearly worth nothing in comparison to that of George Floyd. There was no punishment for Timpa's killers, no civil liability or acknowledgement to his family for their son's death. There was certainly no public outcry over his loss, nationwide introspection and mourning over the injustice of it. 

There must be equal justice under the law. Tony Timpa was a white man. His rights and his worth is not any less than of a black man. One would never know that, based on the aftermath of their deaths. This sort of disproportionate and unequal justice will be the end of our republic, if it isn't already.