Charlie Cheever (born August 2, 1981) is the co-founder, along with

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, of

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, an online knowledge market. He was formerly an engineer and manager at

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. Prior to Facebook, Cheever was employed by

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. He left Facebook to start

in June 2009. He stepped down from active management of Quora in September 2012 but remains an advisor. In 2016, it was announced that he is working as the CEO of Expo (formerly known as Exponent), a

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that is a "translation machine for mobile app code". Cheever is from

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, and is a graduate of

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with a

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. He is a member of the Fly Club.

Education

Cheever attended

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for high school. He attended

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from 1999 to 2003 where he graduated with a

Harvard

In 2000 Cheever was brought in front of Harvard’s Administrative Board for creating a database of the Harvard student body. The program enabled students to find which dorm their fellow classmates were living in. The database was quickly shut down by the Harvard administration. A few years later Cheever's project partially inspired fellow Harvard alum Mark Zuckerberg to create the website

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. Zuckerberg later said that he considered Cheever to be a “kindred spirit”.

Facebook

Zuckerberg recruited Cheever away from Amazon to be an early engineer at Facebook. This hire, along with three others, was part of an initiative to shift the focus at Facebook. Cheever and Adam D’Angelo were responsible for most of the critical programming work involved with turning Facebook from a website into a platform. Most notably Cheever worked on Facebook Connec
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the gaming platform at Facebook, and Facebook Video. Cheever became known as a top engineer at Facebook after creating one of the most important internal tools, bunnylol. The

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tool is still used today by every engineer at Facebook.

Expo.dev

Charlie Cheever started working on Expo.dev in the summer of 2015. The mission was to open up mobile software development to kids. Expo makes it easier to develop apps using

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for major platforms including Web, iOS and Android. Expo is used by large companies like Airbnb, Walmart, and Tesla.

References

External links

https://expo.io/
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