Meta Products
This photo and video sharing app acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion now has over 2 billion monthly active users.
What is Instagram?
This is the year Mark Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook" from his Harvard dorm room.
What is 2004?
This is the name of Meta's line of VR headsets, formerly branded under Oculus.
What is Meta Quest?
Meta's main headquarters campus is located in this California city.
What is Menlo Park?
Dan currently calls this city home base.
What is New York City?
This end-to-end encrypted messaging app, acquired in 2014 for $19 billion, is the most popular messaging platform globally.
What is WhatsApp?
In October 2021, Facebook Inc. rebranded to this new corporate name to reflect its focus on building the metaverse.
What is Meta?
This social VR platform by Meta lets users create avatars, hang out, and attend virtual events in custom worlds.
What is Horizon Worlds?
This is the famous motivational poster text seen around early Facebook offices encouraging speed over perfection.
What is "Move Fast and Break Things"?
This is the most recent experiment Dan has worked on.
What is About The Shop?
This short-form video feature was launched on Instagram in 2020 to compete with TikTok.
What is Reels?
This was Meta's IPO price per share when it went public on the NASDAQ in May 2012.
What is $38?
This mixed-reality headset released in 2023 features full-color passthrough and costs $499.
What is the Meta Quest 3?
This annual internal event brings engineers together for overnight coding sessions to build creative projects outside their normal work.
What is a Hackathon?
This is the name of Dan's dog.
Who is Royce?
This Meta messaging platform merged chat into the Instagram app and shares infrastructure with Facebook.
What is Messenger?
This co-founder of Facebook served as CEO briefly and later went on to purchase The New Republic magazine.
Who is Chris Hughes?
This company, acquired by Facebook in 2014 for ~$2 billion, was the foundation of Meta's VR hardware division.
What is Oculus VR?
The iconic thumbs-up "Like" sign at 1 Hacker Way replaced the logo of this previous occupant of the building.
What is Sun Microsystems?
Dan's most recent Workplace post was about this topic.
What is May 4th SEV review?
This Meta app allows users to create private community spaces with discussion channels, chat, and events - positioned as a competitor to Discord.
What is Channels?
This was Facebook's original exclusive requirement for users to sign up before it opened to the general public in September 2006.
What is a .edu email address
This is the name of Meta's prototype AR glasses revealed at Meta Connect, designed to look like regular eyewear.
Meta's main headquarters campus is located in this California city, occupying the former Sun Microsystems campus.
This rooftop feature of Meta's MPK 21 building, designed by Frank Gehry, spans 3.6 acres and includes a walking trail and over 200 trees.
What is the rooftop garden (or rooftop park)?
This time ranks as Dan's 3rd fastest 5k of 2026.
What is 22 minutes and 53 seconds?