Peter Rojas
New products at Mozilla. Peter Rojas co-founded Gizmodo and Engadget, invested as a VC at BetaWorks, and ran new products at Meta. Now he focuses on building new products inside a big company without losing the speed of a startup.
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About Peter Rojas
Peter Rojas co-founded Gizmodo and Engadget, two of the publications that defined a generation of technology media. He started blogging in 2001, just as a content management system that once cost a million dollars was becoming free with WordPress, and he built formats that felt native to the web rather than ported from print.
Since then he has worked as both an operator and an investor. He was a founder and VC at BetaWorks, where he backed dozens of early-stage companies, and he spent time inside companies operating at real scale, including AOL and Meta, where he worked on Messenger and new products.
Today Peter leads new product development at Mozilla, where he runs the Mozilla Pioneers program, a paid effort to widen the top of the funnel for new ideas. His focus is building new products inside a big company without losing the speed and discovery instincts of a startup.
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