The First 10 People Who Sign up On Facebook
10. Zach Bercu
“The past eight years have been
extraordinary,” Bercu said. A graduate of Emory’s medical school, Bercu
spent a year in Israel, where he became fluent in Hebrew. He completed
his residency in New York, part of the last intern class at St.
Vincent’s, whose “hospital infrastructure crumbled around me,” he
remembered of the facility, which closed in 2010. Now a resident at
Mount Sinai in radiology, Bercu plans to complete a fellowship in
interventional radiology, a form of “micro-surgery.”
From his undergraduate years, “whether through Facebook or in
person,” Bercu says he “took with me some of the greatest friendships
one could have.”9. Manuel Antonio Aguilar
Aguilar calls himself
a social entrepreneur “focused on the base of the pyramid.” His latest
venture, called Quetsol, is a renewable energy company based out of
Guatemala. Back at Harvard, Aguilar remembers, “I met some of the best
friends I’ve ever had and many of the most talented people in the
world.”
8. Andrei Boros
Boros has pursued a career in trading, first with J.P. Morgan, and most recently with Trafalgar, a firm in London.
7. Mark Kaganovich
Kaganovich has been interested in
technology start-ups since high school, and now that he’s finishing up
his Ph.D. — at Stanford, in computational biology — he’s working on his
own. “We want to change bioinformatics,” he said of his company,
SolveBio. That means building computers to answer “biologically relevant
questions” and to make medicine “more precise, more effective, and less
expensive.”
When he was at Harvard, Kaganovich said few people were aware of
start-ups as a career path. “I think all the attention Facebook got
helped change that a little,” he said, “at least for now.”6. Colin Kelly
5. Andrew McCollum
Facebook’s original logo, featuring a
young Al Pacino, was a creation of McCollum’s. He joined Zuckerberg and
Moskovitz in Palo Alto in the summer after their sophomore year,
working primarily on Wirehog, Zuckerberg’s pet project for file sharing.
He was married last year in Rhode Island, in what one reporter called
“the geekiest wedding ever” — the wedding programs were written in XML.
McCollum is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence at the venture
capital firm NEA.
4. Arie Hasit
Hasit moved to Israel right after
graduation, where he is now studying to be a rabbi. He works for a
Jewish youth movement called NOAM.
“I definitely use Facebook to promote my nonprofit work,” he said. “I
started using it literally at the beginning, and I’ve been singing its
praises ever since.”
3. Dustin Moskovitz
“Having genius and ambition alone
isn’t going to get you there. It’s really important to be lucky,”
Moskovitz told Kirkpatrick. “But Mark had all three in spades, including
luck.” What Moskovitz had was a Herculean work ethic and a willingness
to learn. “He was just a workaholic and a machine,” Zuckerberg said of
his cofounder. Moskovitz left Facebook in 2008 to build Asana, a project
management app that he hopes will one day replace email.
2. Chris Hughes
Originally the spokesman for
Facebook, Hughes left to run Barack Obama’s online campaign in 2008.
“Working with Mark is very challenging,” Hughes told Kirkpatrick.
“You’re never sure if what you’re doing is something he likes or he
doesn’t like. It’s so much better to be friends with Mark than to work
with him.” Jumo, Hughes’ charity index, merged with Good magazine in 2011. In 2012, he purchased The New Republic, and just announced a major redesign.
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook’s first user actually holds
the user ID number four, the first three accounts having been blocked
off for testing. With its public offering last May, Zuckerberg only solidified
his control over the company he founded. One indicator of his
continuing rule is Graph Search, a name for Facebook’s latest product
that Kirkpatrick speculated was pooh-poohed by marketers. “It’s a
terrible name,” Kirkpatrick said. “It’s sort of a little piece of
evidence right there that he’s still in the driver’s seat.”
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