{"id":1048172,"date":"2026-11-09T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048172"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:08:32","slug":"metas-chief-strategy-officer-dave-wehner-is-leaving-the-company-for-four-year-old-ai-startup-sends-right-mission-message-says-i-have-become-increasingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/metas-chief-strategy-officer-dave-wehner-is-leaving-the-company-for-four-year-old-ai-startup-sends-right-mission-message-says-i-have-become-increasingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s chief strategy officer Dave Wehner is leaving the company for four-year-old AI startup; sends &#8216;right mission&#8217; message; says: I have become increasingly &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Wehner, Meta\u2019s chief strategy officer and former chief financial officer, is leaving the social media giant to join fast-growing AI startup Lin Qiao-led Fireworks as its new CFO, marking another high-profile move from Big Tech into the artificial intelligence sector. Wehner announced the move in a post on X, saying he had become increasingly convinced of the opportunity ahead for the four-year-old startup. \u201cFireworks has the right mission for the moment,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve become increasingly bullish on what they are building. There\u2019s a remarkable depth of technical talent here, coupled with a very practical focus on what customers need.\u201d Fireworks, which provides AI inference and model-training services built around open-source AI models, was valued at $17.5 billion in a Series D funding round in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Wehner, Meta\u2019s chief strategy officer and former chief financial officer, is leaving the social media giant to join fast-growing AI startup Lin Qiao-led Fireworks as its new CFO, marking another high-profile move from Big Tech into the artificial intelligence sector. Wehner announced the move in a post on X, saying he had become increasingly convinced of the opportunity ahead for the four-year-old startup. \u201cFireworks has the right mission for the moment,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve become increasingly bullish on what they are building. There\u2019s a remarkable depth of technical talent here, coupled with a very practical focus on what customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048173,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048172\/revisions\/1048173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}