FILE PHOTO: Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox speaks at Facebook Inc's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc's chief product officer and one of its earliest employees, Chris Cox, said on March 14 he is leaving the company just days after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed a plan to transform the world's biggest social network into an encryption-focused messaging company.
Cox, the 36-year-old Zuckerberg lieutenant who would have managed the CEO's vision to bring Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp closer together, said in a blog post that his departure came "with great sadness." He had left a graduate programme at Stanford University to join Facebook in 2005 as a software engineer and helped developed its original news feed feature.
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