Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO
About six months ago, critics pummeled Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
He’d made questionable management decisions, or so it appeared from the outside. He’d fumbled the site’s redesign and botched the company’s terms of service agreement — moves that whipped up negative publicity and user backlash. Some people asked whether it was time for Zuckerberg to go.
Six months later, those critics have gone. The company is enjoying astounding momentum — blowing through user growth forecasts… Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook IPO talk, the video firehose, Ning’s ridiculous valuation & more
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Airborne mash-up: lawn chair travels 193 miles –Oregon resident Kent Couch tried to fly to Idaho last weekend — in an apparatus made out of his lawn chair carried by 105 large helium balloons. He carried instruments to measure altitude and speed, and also a parachute. He didn’t make it, though. (Image courtesy of AP)
More adult supervision at Facebook — Chamath Palihapitiya, a former AOL executive turned venture capital investor at the… Continue Reading
Mayfield’s Palihapitiya: “White male circle of insiders”
(Updated: Mayfield has responded, saying the citations from the Chamath interview were taken out of context.)
Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist with Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield Fund makes a somewhat provocative remark about Silicon Valley in a video filmed by a French artist.
Despite his success in Silicon Valley, he still sees a white male circle of insiders that he can’t penetrate, with exclusive dinner parties and country clubs that he isn’t part of, he apparently… Continue Reading