'SHOULD I PUT DOWN MY BEER?' What Facebook's First Office Looked Like
"Now Entering" documentary via The Huffington Post
Today, ten years after Facebook launched, the company has a sprawling campus in Palo Alto and it's building a mini town for its employees.What did its first-ever office look like, back when it was a tiny startup in a crammed space?
The Huffington Post dug up an old video interview with Mark Zuckerberg from June 2005. The interview took place in the company's first Palo Alto office on a day when Facebook was celebrating its 3 millionth user (now it has has 750 million).
The office was in downtown Palo Alto on Emerson Street. It had 5 or 6 offices, one conference room, and a large common area.
Zuckerberg was interviewed in the designated office "lounge." He was barefoot, sipping a beer.
The whole early Facebook clan is in the video, including YouTube founder Steve Chen and early employee Ezra Callahan.