workplace by facebook

Dave and Evan chat with Julian Codorniou, Vice President of Workplace by Facebook.

Julien joined Facebook in 2011 to build the EMEA gaming team and then led the global Platform Partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their apps with Platform. Prior to Facebook, Julien was director of business development at Microsoft Corp where he created and launched the BizSpark program.

Workplace is growing very fast, and it appears it's just getting started. This app has the potential (funding, engineering, innovation, capability, global reach, etc.) to radically transform enterprise communications . . . enterprise wide. 

Under Julien's leadership, Workplace serves more than 3 million paying users at companies including Walmart, Starbucks, Nestle, Telefonica, Grab, Spotify, Chevron and many more globally. 

In this podcast we get a better idea how Workplace is different from other enterprise social/messaging apps as well as from Facebook itself. Julien explains how Workplace started as an internal project and how Workplace balances familiarity with the unique requirements of business customers. 

Facebook are undoubtedly one of the biggest brands when it comes to modern technology platforms. With huge recognition across the globe their Workplace by Facebook platform offers business users the chance to leverage the same technology that Facebook used during their astronomic rise to world social network domination. Workplace was developed internally and was such a success that the Facebook team realised other businesses could benefit from using the platform. Since its official launch at the end of 2016, Workplace now has over 30000 organisations using the platform and promises to become one of the world's most disruptive collaboration tools. In this episode we speak to some of the executive team from Workplace to bring you the inside track on their plans.