Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg

Renamed Facebook to Meta in 2021 and has since spent over $50B through Reality Labs on the bet that glasses replace phones. Quest made VR a real consumer category; the Ray-Ban Meta line became the first genuinely mainstream smart eyewear, and Orion put true AR into a wearable prototype. Also open-sourced Llama, forcing the industry's most consequential debate about closed vs open models.