Peter Rojas, one of the highest ranking Latinos at Meta, gives an overview of his career that began during the Dot Com crash of the early 2000s. Peter founded his own blogging company in response to the slow job market and went on to found and fund several tech companies before leading incubations at Meta.
The event begins with Marisela Meskus describing how they met Peter and reached out to him for mentorship after establishing common ground. Following Peter’s presentation, a casual interview takes place between the two. There is a Q+A session at the end.
When: January 20, 2023
Peter Rojas is Head of Product at NPE, Meta's experimental product group. Prior to joining Meta he was a founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, a consumer tech-focused seed stage venture capital fund. He is also the co-founder of several startups, including Weblogs Inc. (acquired by AOL in 2005), where he created and was editor-in-chief of both Engadget and Joystiq; Gizmodo/Gawker Media (now part of G/O Media); music discovery service RCRD LBL; and gdgt, a social commerce platform (acquired by AOL in 2013). After gdgt's acquisition he served as VP of Strategy at AOL, as well as Co-director of Alpha, the company's experimental product group.
Marisela Meskus is pursuing a MLIS degree in hopes of becoming a UX Librarian. Marisela has earned certificates in User Experience for Libraries and in User Experience and Web Design. Watch a recording of their UX Cafecito presentation about UX for Libraries here.
Besides volunteering as a UX Cafecito Organizer for Techqueria, Marisela is also Web Services Manager for the BayNet library association and a member of BayCHI, a Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction.
Like Peter Rojas, Marisela has worked at Meta. They recruited Technical Program Managers using the boolean searching and interviewing skills obtained from years of researching family genealogy. Peter and Marisela are also both natives of Merced, California and have an English degree.
https://techqueria.org/events/2023/01/20/ux-cafecito-a-conversation-with-peter-rojas/