Meet Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta and founding partner at Gigascale Capital. He joined Facebook in 2008, led its engineering organization for 17 years and played a significant role in scaling the company.
Today, Mike is applying his experience and insights to tackling climate change — one of the most fundamental challenges underlying nearly everything humanity hopes to achieve.
In this interview, he shares his unique journey from the early days of Facebook to exploring how AI can help shape the future, along with three key questions he uses to identify truly transformative technologies early.
Watch the interview to learn how to spot what’s coming next — and how to scale it at an extraordinary level.
00:00 Intro
01:33 Scaling Facebook: Building the Backbone Under Pressure
02:57 You Can’t Avoid the Hard Problems
03:40 Why Meta Went All-In on AI
05:49 Take the Leap: Believe Before It Works
08:08 Three Core Questions for Spotting Breakout Technologies Early
10:46 Why I Left Big Tech to Break the Bottleneck to Progress
12:24 Startups Will Solve Sustainability
13:25 Better, Faster, Cheaper: Products People Actually Love
15:34 Technology Matters — People Matter More
17:17 What Winning Founders Have in Common
19:03 There’s No Perfect Founder Checklist
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