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- Former Facebook employees are out founding and leading some of the hottest
enterprise software and services startups around. - From Asana to Woven, we spoke to several of the former Facebook employees about their current companies - and what they learned from their time at the social networking giant.
Facebook's legions of employees have built one of the most popular and impactful web services in the world - but their influence doesn't end there.
Over its fifteen-year existence, the Menlo Park, California-based technology giant has seen tens of thousands of workers come through its doors. And when they leave, some end up building on the technologies that underpin the modern web and support some of the world's biggest companies.
From multi-billion-dollar collaboration software companies to popular analytics services and buzzy young tools for soliciting user feedback, some of the hottest startups in the enterprise space are led by former Facebook employees, who have brought them experiences working on the world's most popular app to bear on creating the tools that power the rest of the technology ecosystem behind the scenes.
Business Insider spoke to people throughout the enterprise industry to track down some of the key Facebook alumni who made the jump into entrepreneurship. So, in no particular order, here are 19 former Facebookers now leading buzzy enterprise startups: