Mark Zuckerberg's longest-serving employee on AI, jobs - and her boss
Naomi Gleit has weathered many controversies at Meta, but remains in what she tells the BBC is her "dream job".
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Notable Quotes
"working at Meta was her 'dream job' – even if, two decades ago, her family took some persuading that she’d made the right decision."
— Naomi Gleit , Executive
"I think that the difference between what people think of Mark and how Mark actually is, is huge."
— Naomi Gleit , Executive
"He’s also a great husband and a great dad to three little kids, and it’s been really incredible to watch just how he’s become the leader that he is today."
— Naomi Gleit , Executive
"awesome"
— Naomi Gleit , Executive
"We’re elevating individual contributors and flattening teams."
— Mark Zuckerberg , Executive
"They (Meta) started making giant offers to a lot of people on our team, you know, like $100 million signing bonuses, more than that (in) compensation per year."
— Sam Altman , Executive
"At some level, [it’s] not just going to be learning from people, because you want to build something that is fundamentally smarter than people."
— Mark Zuckerberg , Executive
"This is distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole of its output."
— Mark Zuckerberg , Executive
Key People
Former CEO of Scale AI, now serving as Meta's chief AI officer.
Co-leader of NFDG and now part of Meta’s AI leadership.
Jeremy Strong is an actor set to portray Mark Zuckerberg in the follow-up film The Social Reckoning.
Jesse Eisenberg is an actor known for portraying Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network.
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook.
Naomi Gleit is the longest-serving employee at Meta and currently serves as head of product.
Former CEO of GitHub, helping lead Meta’s Superintelligence Labs.
Formerly Apple's head of foundation models, now part of Meta's Superintelligence team.
Chief executive officer of OpenAI.
Shengjia Zhao is the head of Meta's new research lab.
Susan Li is the chief financial officer of Meta.
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Naomi Gleit has weathered many controversies at Meta, but remains in what she tells the BBC is her "dream job".
Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product and longest-serving employee after Mark Zuckerberg, discusses her journey at the company, the impact of AI on the workforce, and her perspective on Zuckerberg's leadership.
An overview of Naomi Gleit’s insights on AI's role in business and employment, and her experiences working with Mark Zuckerberg at Meta.
Meta introduces subscription plans for its platforms, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus at $3.99/month, and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99/month, offering enhanced features as the company expands its AI products. Naomi Gleit, Head of Product, highlights the richer ways to express and connect across apps.
Meta is developing an AI clone of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, trained on his mannerisms and public statements, to assist employees in connecting with the boss more effectively.
Meta's aggressive hiring spree for AI talent includes offering compensation packages rivaling those of professional athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs, as Zuckerberg aims to build advanced AI reasoning models and agents.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines plans for AI models that can self-improve with minimal human input, aiming to develop systems smarter than humans and with broad implications for product development and company operations.
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