Facebook just announced a complete overhaul of their “Groups” feature, with former Hot Potato CEO to Justin Shaffer heading up the project. This is interesting as Facebook’s Hot Potato acquisition in August was not so long ago.
And this is a relatively fast turnaround for Shaffer as presumably the “Groups stuff” was already in the works before he became product manager or even joined the company.
Justin Shaffer works on the product team at Facebook. He’s led teams that have worked on Groups, Places, Privacy, Timeline, Photos, and Events. Justin came to Facebook via the acquisition of Hot Potato in mid-2010 where he was the Founder and CEO. Hot Potato built software that made it easy to share what you were doing, where you were, and with whom – and connect to others doing the same. Prior to founding Hot Potato, Justin served as Senior Vice President,...
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