Facebook Steals the Architect of Google Chrome OS

Facebook’s quest for the world’s best technological talent continues. The social networking behemoth has hired Matt Papakipos — the leader and key architect of Google Chrome OS — and VMWare Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein onto its engineering team.

To say that the resumes of Papakipos and Goldfein are impressive would be an understatement. Before becoming an engineering director at GoogleGoogleGoogle, Papakipos was the director of architecture at NVIDIA and Co-Founder of PeakSteam, which was acquired by Google in 2007. Goldfein was most recently VMWare’s VP and general manager of the desktop business unit and a seven-year veteran of the company. More