Dex Hunter-Torricke

Well, maybe it shouldn't be.

Maybe they have some part to play in it, but that's not the point.

The point is, if you have a thesis that your technology is now going to be this thing which automatically leads us to this better future, and the future is playing out right there, and you are not doing anything to even investigate how you might shape that,

then your thesis starts to ring a little hollow.

And I remember sitting at my desk in Facebook in this palatial headquarters on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, just thinking, God, I'm at the edge of the world in air-conditioned luxury.

And that is the animating reality of people all over the world, and people who are just like my dad when he was a kid.

That's my dad's story playing out right there.

Anyway, my dad passed away just a little bit more than a month after that photo came out.

And I went back to England, and I had a

a bunch of time to think over the next few weeks, and I decided that's it.

I've got to find a different path through this industry.

That really was something which started a bunch of these gears spinning.

I still was in tech for a bunch more time, and it was something that...

I began to take more and more of a position that I had to be involved directly in shaping the cause and the movements and the issues that were playing out in very different parts of the world.

Facebook has become a central piece of the machinery for how you convince the world of things.

It's the battleground of ideas played out across Instagram and WhatsApp and Facebook connects billions of people.

It connected the world.

And all...

of the central problems of our time are playing out in those communities.

And so Facebook absolutely has a role in how it prioritizes and it thinks about the architectures that might dramatically shape and shift how the entire world acts on any number of problems.