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anybody remembers that country club - Sun Labs - when they lost their own building and took over the first floor of MPK16. This new FB Labs with non-existent building kind of reminded...

This professional executive FB got sounds similar to Marissa - stellar looking record (which Google was happy to part with :) while i couldn't find any real substance. A lot of smooth talks, speeches, articles, etc. about how to do disruptive innovation though. "Advanced Technology and Projects group, a skunkworks-inspired team chartered to deliver breakthrough innovations for the company" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan) in Motorolla and Google ... so what real results are, what "breakthroughs" have been delivered (is it the "electronic tattoo that can be used to authenticate a user instead of a password")? I mean, of course, i'm just out of curiosity as it is FB's money, so who cares.




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