Andrew Bosworth

Bosworth is a native Californian and a HarvardHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry graduate. At Harvard he served as a teaching assistant for an artificial intelligence class that Mark ZuckerbergMark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook, Chairman and CEO of Meta, and a co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. His work spans social networking, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry took; he then worked at MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft is a technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, with businesses spanning Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, gaming and devices.Open the full entry as a software design engineer.⁠[1][2]

Bosworth joined Facebook in 2006, helped create its core News Feed service, helped lead the Groups, Messenger and video calling units, and was at one point vice president of ad operations and business platform.⁠[2][1]

Since 2017 Bosworth has led Facebook’s virtual reality unit, which works on Oculus headsets, the Portal video-calling device and smart glasses developed with Ray-Ban, along with augmented reality projects.⁠[2]

In 2018 an internal Facebook memo Bosworth had written about the company’s growth-first approach was leaked to BuzzFeed News; it included the line “Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.” He later disowned the comments, saying the post was meant to “bring to the surface issues I felt deserved more discussion.”⁠[2]

On September 22, 2021, Facebook named Bosworth chief technology officer, succeeding Mike Schroepfer, who planned to step down in 2022; the role was to span the data systems behind the ad business, consumer hardware, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and efforts against misinformation and toxic posts. He said at the time: “This is all foundational to our broader efforts helping to build the metaverse.”⁠[2]

Bosworth is now Meta’s chief technology officer and leads the Reality Labs team.⁠[3][1]

On April 24, 2025, a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry released “What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech,” part of Andreessen Horowitz’s AI Revolution series, in which a16z Growth general partner David GeorgeDavid George (a16z)David George is a venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). After joining from General Atlantic in 2019, he built and leads a16z’s growth-stage investing practice, leading or participating in investments in companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe, Roblox and Databricks.Open the full entry interviewed Bosworth; a16z.com also published a lightly edited transcript.⁠[4][5][6]

The conversation ran from the early News Feed days at Facebook to smart glasses and augmented reality headsets, covering the evolution of Reality Labs, a post-mobile world, whether AI upends the app model, open-source Llama and “commoditizing your complements,” and the risks to that vision. On how today’s apps are used, Bosworth said: “We haven't changed modalities.” On devices with AI as the main interface, he said: “It's not even a platform yet.”⁠[5][6]

Personal website: https://boz.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/boztank (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

Meta: Official website: https://www.meta.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[3]