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WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Meet Facebook's first 20 employees
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Meet Facebook's first 20 employees
Jul 26, 2021, 12:44 IST
Gilles Mischler built and designed Facebook's IT infrastructure from the ground up.
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You can thank engineer Scott Marlette for being able to visually stalk all of your friends. He created Facebook's photo application.
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Dan Neff had a short, five-month stint as one of Facebook's first employees and was responsible for rolling out new site features.
Aaron Sittig was brought on by Sean Parker. He created the concept of tagging friends in Facebook pictures and "liking" posts.
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Naomi Gleit was tasked with making sure "literally everyone in the world was on the site."
Nick Heyman was in charge of handling Facebook's explosive traffic, although he wasn't there for very long.
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Steve King directed Facebook's media sales and was responsible for getting the first big advertisers on board like Panasonic and Microsoft.
Tricia Black worked at Y2M, a firm that sold ads for college magazines. Eduardo Saverin set up a meeting with Black, who began selling ads for Facebook and eventually became the first VP of Sales.
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Steve Chen left Facebook after a few short months to start YouTube.
Next to Zuckerberg, Kevin Colleran has been the longest-serving Facebook employee. He lived with Zuckerberg in the 2004 Palo Alto summer sublet.
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Matt Cohler was brought on by Peter Thiel and was formerly one of the founding members of LinkedIn.
Ezra Callahan had been roommates with Sean Parker and was hired to "whittle away" at Eduardo Saverin's CFO responsibilities.
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James Pereira was Facebook's 7th employee. He left three years later.
Sean Parker was an early employee at Napster and was founding president of Facebook.
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Taner Halicioglu was Facebook's first "real" employee outside of the founders. He built out the entire initial hardware infrastructure.
Eduardo Saverin was a Facebook co-founder and its first CFO. He famously sued Mark Zuckerberg and the two reached a settlement.
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Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook and served as the site's spokesman. He later coordinated all social networking aspects of Obama's 2008 campaign.
Andrew McCollum designed Facebook's first logo and worked on a side project with Zuckerberg, Wirehog.
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Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook's first CTO, was Mark Zuckerberg's roommate. The two dropped out of Harvard together to move to California and work on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. The blue design of the site is partially because of his red-green color blindness.
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BONUS: Adam D'Angelo was high school friends with Mark Zuckerberg and eventually left Facebook to found Quora.