Katherine Losse
Kate Losse was a grad school refugee when she joined Facebook as employee #51 in 2005. Hired to answer user questions such as â€œWhat is a poke?â€ and â€œWhy canâ€™t I access my ex-girlfriendâ€™s profile?â€ her early days at the company were characterized by a sense of camaraderie, promise, and ambition: Here was a group of scrappy young upstarts on a mission to rock Silicon Valley and change the world.,Over time, this sense of mission became so intense that working for Facebook felt like more than just a job; it implied a wholehearted dedication to â€œthe cause.â€ Employees were incentivized to live within one mile of the office, summers were spent carousing at the company pool house, and female employees were told to wear T-shirts with founder Mark Zuckerbergâ€™s profile picture on his birthday. Losse started to wonder what this new medium meant for real-life relationships: Would Facebook improve our social interactions? Or would we all just adapt our behavior to the habits and rules of these brilliant but socially awkward Internet savants who have become todayâ€™s youngest power players? Increasingly skeptical, Losse graduated from customer service to the internationalization teamâ€”tasked with rolling out Facebook to the rest of the worldâ€” finally landing a seat right outside Zuckerbergâ€™s office as his personal ghostwriter, the voice of the boy king.,This book takes us for the first time into the heart of this fast-growing information empire, inviting us to high-level meetings with Zuckerberg; lifting the veil on long nights of relentless hacking and trolling; taking us behind the scenes of raucous company parties; and introducing us to the personalities, values, and secret ambitions of the floppy-haired boy wonders who are redefining the way we live, love, and work. By revealing here whatâ€™s really driving both the business and the culture of the social network, Losse answers the biggest question of all: What kind of world is Facebook trying to build, and is it the world we want to live in?
Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Science,Technology,Business,Biography,Literature,21st Century,Computers,Internet,Biography,Autobiography,Biography Memoir,Cultural
The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network