Executives at some of the world’s largest technology firms are leaving prime jobs to join startups that build communications and collaboration tools, a market expected to skyrocket as more businesses settle into hybrid work arrangements
.former top engineer for its Messenger app, left the company last month to oversee technology at Airtable, which makes cloud-based spreadsheet collaboration software.
“Both of these are things that I’ve done in the past at Messenger,” Mr. Endres said. At Facebook, Mr. Endres grew Messenger’s engineering team to more than 1,000 workers, from roughly 30 when he joined in 2011.Before Facebook, he was a software developer and architect at Microsoft Corp. since the late 1990s.
“Covid and working from home accelerated that,” he said. “Collectively we’re all figuring out how remote works.” Over the past year, Airtable has added some 13,000 new paid customers to its platform, the company says.
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