Selling the First Facebook Ads, With Matt Britton
Summary: Matt Britton not only sold the first ads to and for Facebook, way back in 2004, he gives us a really insightful and, frankly, …
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Facebook Almost Had A Mascot Named Pokey
In this week’s episode of the podcast with early Facebook engineer Karel Baloun, we learn that around 2005/2006 Facebook considered launching a company mascot to …
Facebook’s First Senior Software Engineer, Karel Baloun
Summary: Karel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly …
Chamath Palihapitiya on Facebook, AIM and WinAmp
Summary Most of you know Chamath Palihapitiya as one of the most prominent and progressive venture capitalists working today. But before forming Social Capital, Chamath …
Founder of Friendster and Nuzzel, Jonathan Abrams
Summary Jonathan Abrams was the founder of the first modern social networking site, Friendster. This is essentially the story of the birth of social media… the …