17 Stories Behind Facebook's Success

This article is written by SAI. Nicholas Carlson Self sorting "The Facebook Effect" A book about the story behind Facebook is very interesting.

1. The first external investor of FB. Peter Thiel In 2009, he sold half of his FB shares to Russia's DST group.

2, in 2004, when it was very difficult, an advertising deal with apple solved most of the expenses for FB.

3, after Sean Parker (former vice president FB) was arrested for drug abuse, Accel Partners cleared him out of the company.

4, after FB walked out of the university campus, he wanted to launch another FacebookHigh.com for high school, but it was too expensive because of the domain name.

5, in 2006, there was a guy named Chris Putnam who had black FB and changed many people's homepage to MySpace style, and then FB hired him.

6, FB once wanted to call its advertising product "AdSeed", a cottage Google Adsense.

7, when Accel invested FB $12 million 700 thousand, Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker and Dustin Moscovitz received 1 million dollars respectively.

8. On the second day of Accel's investment, Zuck met a maniac at a gas station and ran to him with a gun. He jumped on his SUV and started off.

9, Chen Shijun worked for FB for several weeks before he resigned to start his own business. The company he founded was called Youtube.

10, when the company was also called TheFacebook, they spent 200 thousand dollars to buy the Facebook.com domain name.

11, Mark did not want to add photo sharing function to FB, but was eventually persuaded by Sean Parker. Now Facebook is the most popular photo sharing service in the world.

12, when investors and employees say they want to change their CEO, Zuck started learning CEO courses in 2005.

13, when FB first launched News Feed, the first response was "Turn this shit off".

14, Flickr co founder Caterina Fake can not register FB account, because the system thinks its name is... Fake (fake).

15, FB has no way to negotiate with Google. It must first obtain the consent of Microsoft, because Microsoft invested in FB in 2007.

16, after the launch of the redesigned page in 2008, even Dell's CEO Michael Dell joined a group called "opposing new Facebook".

17. The average age of FB employees is 31.