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Meta denies Mark Zuckerberg is set to resign next year
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IANS | 23 Nov, 2022
Meta
(formerly Facebook) has denied reports that its founder and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg is resigning next year amid slow growth and massive layoffs
at the social network.
The Leak portal first reported, citing its source privy to plans at Meta, that "Zuckerberg is set to resign next year".
The
report claimed that Zuckerberg has decided to step down himself and it
will not "affect metaverse", his multi-billion dollar project.
Andy Stone, Meta's Communications Director, refuted the report late on Tuesday, tweeting that "This is false".
Despite
serious concerns raised by investors and industry experts, Zuckerberg
is determined to aggressively push his Metaverse dream.
Earlier
this month, in one of the worst lay-offs ever in the tech industry,
Zuckerberg sacked more than 11,000 employees -- about 13 per cent of the
global workforce -- and extended hiring freeze through Q1 2023.
The
company posted another quarterly revenue decline as investors begin to
lose faith in its loss-making, billion-dollars metaverse dream.
In
the third quarter (Q3), Meta's revenue declined 4 per cent year over
year to hit $27.7 billion. The company posted a net income of $4.395
billion, down from $9.194 billion year over year.
This decline was due to Meta's huge losses in Reality Labs, Meta's virtual reality division, which lost $3.672 billion in Q3.
"There's
still a long road ahead to build the next computing platform. But we're
clearly doing leading work here. This is a massive undertaking and it's
often going to take a few versions of each product before they become
mainstream," Zuckerberg had said.
Meta CFO David Wehner, however, said that some of the revenue decline is due to inflation.
Meta
investors have called on the company to reduce its workforce by at
least 20 per cent and stop making investments in metaverse.
In a
sharp criticism of Zuckerberg, Altimeter Capital Chair and CEO Brad
Gerstner had said that the social network needs to reduce more
headcounts and stop spending too much on metaverse to get its "mojo
back".
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