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		<title>Facebook Deal or No Deal: The Way They Were</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we are refraining from writing about the current deals being mulled over by Facebook (see this post and also this disclosure)&#8211;one for its international ad business with rivals Google and Microsoft vying for the privilege of losing money in a guaranteed revenue deal and another to complete a mega-round of funding that will value [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since we are refraining from writing about the current deals being mulled over by Facebook (see this <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071015/facebook-funding-still-talking/">post</a> and also this <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/kara-swisher/ethics/">disclosure</a>)&#8211;one for its international ad business with rivals Google and Microsoft vying for the privilege of losing money in a guaranteed revenue deal and another to complete a mega-round of funding that will value the hot social-networking site at $15 billion&#8211;BoomTown is bored! </p>
<p>And surly, given that we always have a lot to say about Facebook. (OK, <em>OK</em>, one tidbit: Its execs and investors have been disagreeing over how big a new investment to take&#8211;the operations folks want more cash and the VCs less dilution.)</p>
<p>That does not mean I do not hope to break news of what Facebook finally manages to decide to do, both with regard to partners and its funding, but that I will bow out of parsing this particular set of deals in excessive detail.</p>
<p>But our ennui got us thinking to back in mid-August, when we did a <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070816/the-men-and-no-women-facebook-of-facebook-management/">post making our own Facebook of the top execs there</a> using your basic corporate shots. </p>
<p>So now, before they become all rich and start flying private, we compiled from less corporate pictures we found right on Facebook and the Web&#8211;we were going for a more fun Facebook of the players here.</p>
<p>We used all the execs from the last one, but we also added one woman, PR maven Brandee Barker, as well as the three principal VCs.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/mark.jpg' alt='mark' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Co-founder <strong>and CEO Mark Zuckerberg</strong> in a picture presumably taken at Harvard. He looks so young and naive. Kind of like now.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/adam.jpg' alt='adam' width='380' height='313' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Zuckerberg best buddy and tech genius <strong>Adam D&#8217;Angelo</strong> (VP and CTO) on a thrilling night at Foo Camp! What could be more fun than an overhead projector and a room full of geeky guys!</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/dustin.jpg' alt='dustin' class='centered' /></p>
<p>Who knew co-founder and VP of Engineering <strong>Dustin Moskovitz</strong> was such a fox? His future is so bright, he needs those rad shades!</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/vannatta.jpg' alt='vannatta' width='380' height='313' class='centered'/></p>
<p>What deft bit of performance art is wacky <strong>Owen Van Natta</strong>, VP of Operations and Chief Revenue Officer, performing here? A meditation on life as an underling of various and sundry Web moguls&#8211;all Silly String and sorrows?</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/chamath.jpg' alt='chamath' width='380' height='313' class='centered'/></p>
<p>We have no idea what <strong>Chamath Palihapitiya</strong>, VP of Product Marketing and Operations, is doing, but it looks cool, and he&#8217;s dressed natty as always.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/matt.jpg' alt='matt' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Hey, who also knew that VP of Strategy and Operations <strong>Matt Cohler</strong> was in a 1990s techno-rock duo? (Oh, he&#8217;s the one without the shades.)</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/gideon.jpg' alt='gideon' width='380' height='313' class='centered'/></p>
<p>VP and CFO <strong>Gideon &#8220;Death Cat&#8221; Yu</strong> used to have to drink from public fountains, but soon he&#8217;ll have his own, spewing only the finest champagne!</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/brandee.jpg' alt='brandee' width='380' height='313' class='centered'/></p>
<p>It is hard to know where to begin with this picture of PR head <strong>Brandee Barker</strong> (is she headed for the Castro Street Fair?). But I say: Own it, sister!</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/thiel.JPG' alt='thiel' width='380' height='313' class='centered'/></p>
<p>There are exactly zero interesting pictures of doubtlessly interesting Founders Fund VC <strong>Peter Thiel</strong> online (and we looked hard). That&#8217;s him on the right, looking the most normal of this PayPal crew.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/jim.jpg' alt='jim' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Again, it is hard to know exactly what Accel Partners VC <strong>Jim Breyer</strong> is up to here, but we think the hat might be a new and exciting look for him. </p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/10/sze.jpg' alt='sze' width='340' height='283' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Greylock Partners VC <strong>David Sze</strong> is thinking really hard about how he can say Facebook is worth $15 billion and still keep a straight face and refrain from cackling in front of all the other VCs at Il Fornaio.</p>
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		<title>Attack of the Vice Presidents at Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone has been focusing on the management roundelays at Yahoo this week, with President Sue Decker's announcement of changes in the company's ranks (here is my translation of her memo), the good folks over at Facebook have been quietly fine-tuning their titles.

So we are all up to date, here is the new--and much more helpful--Facebook page on top management.

And it seems now that all the executives at the hotter-than-ever social-networking company have become simple vice presidents (although some get extra titles, too).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While everyone has been focusing on the management roundelays at Yahoo this week, with President Sue Decker&#8217;s announcement of changes in the company&#8217;s ranks (here is my <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070830/yahoo-held-hostage-day-48-boomtown-decodes-the-memo-so-you-dont-have-to/">translation of her memo</a>), the good folks over at Facebook have been quietly fine-tuning their titles.</p>
<p>So we are all up to date, here is the new&#8211;and much more helpful&#8211;<a href="http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?execbios">Facebook page on top management</a>.</p>
<p>And it seems now that all the executives at the hotter-than-ever social-networking company have become simple vice presidents (although some get extra titles, too).</p>
<p>While some were already VPs, it appears to all be part of a novel attempt at title deflation that is kind of admirable. No EVPs or SVPs or presidents or anything else.</p>
<p>While too many of the execs appear to be in charge of operations of some sort, it feels a bit clearer than before. And it definitely positions all the execs on the exact same level (almost like some commune!). </p>
<p>This was all set in motion, of course, with the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070815/management-shuffle-at-facebook/">recent downgrade in title of COO Owen Van Natta</a>.</p>
<p>Of course, there is one who rules above all with the big title: Chief Executive Officer and Founder Mark Zuckerberg or, as I plan to call him when I see him next, the Man.</p>
<p>So, after the jump, is that skinny with pictures, of course, which is slightly different than when I posted my own <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070816/the-men-and-no-women-facebook-of-facebook-management/">Facebook of Facebook execs</a>:</p>
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<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/zuckerberg.jpg' alt='zuckerberg' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Mark Zuckerberg</strong> remains CEO and founder.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/owen.jpg' alt='owen' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Owen Van Natta</strong> was COO and is now vice president of operations and chief revenue officer.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/chamath.jpg' alt='chamath' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Chamath Palihapitiya</strong> is now vice president of product marketing and operations.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/cohler.jpg' alt='cohler' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Matt Cohler</strong> is now vice president of strategy and operations.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/yu.jpg' alt='yu' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Gideon Yu</strong> is now vice president and chief financial officer (and I like to call him Death Cat, too, because he is like that cat named Oscar for his unusual ability to get a sweet job at the hot Web company of the moment at just the right time).</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/dustin.jpg' alt='dustin' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Dustin Moskovitz</strong> is now co-founder and vice president of engineering.</p>
<p> <img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/dangelo.jpg' alt='dangelo' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Adam D&#8217;Angelo</strong> is now vice president and chief technology officer.</p>
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		<title>The Men and (No) Women Facebook of Facebook Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted on the management shifts at Facebook, most particularly the changing of COO Owen Van Natta's title to chief revenue officer and vice president of operations. 

I also gave a rundown of all the top execs at the fast-growing social networking company and their duties (there are an awful lot of vice presidents with operations in their title, which I shall leave to another post to parse). 

But, silly me, this is Facebook after all and I forgot the photos of each of the members of co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's brain trust, who will presumably make the popular site hugely profitable and an inevitable part of every man, woman and child's life on the planet. 

Right, boys? (Because there are no ladies in this group.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, I posted on the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070815/management-shuffle-at-facebook/">management shifts at Facebook</a>, most particularly the changing of Chief Operating Officer Owen Van Natta&#8217;s title to chief revenue officer and vice president of operations. </p>
<p>I also gave a rundown of all the top execs at the fast-growing social-networking company and their duties (there are an awful lot of vice presidents with operations in their title, which I shall leave to another post to parse). </p>
<p>But, silly me, this is <em>Facebook</em> after all, and I forgot the photos of each of the members of co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s brain trust, who will presumably make the popular site hugely profitable and an inevitable part of every man, woman and child&#8217;s life on the planet. </p>
<p>Right, boys? (Because there are no ladies in this group.)</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s the dream team head shots and a little background on each below the photos from their bios on the site and elsewhere.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/zuckerberg.jpg' alt='zuckerberg' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Mark Zuckerberg</strong> needs no introduction these days what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now and my mother can hardly turn on a computer. But let&#8217;s try, shall we?: Harvard. Almost Quarterlifer. Co-founder. Flip-flop wearer. Genuine visionary with potentially Gatesian dreams of dominance over all he surveys. I think that about covers it.</p>
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<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/owen.jpg' alt='owen' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Owen Van Natta</strong> was COO and is now, as I said above, chief revenue officer and vice president of operations, where he is in charge of important parts of the business, like ad sales and other money-making efforts. Van Natta came to Facebook from his stint at Amazon.com, where he held the weighty title of vice president of worldwide business and corporate development and also was part of the founding team of its A9.com site. With a handsome surfer-dude look, is it any surprise he went to college at the University of California at Santa Cruz?</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/chamath.jpg' alt='chamath' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Chamath Palihapitiya</strong>, who was born in Sri Lanka and was raised in Canada, was recently hired as Facebook&#8217;s vice president of marketing and operations. The former AOLer, where he was in charge of its instant-messaging division, is widely credited with turning it around. He also did a stint after AOL at the Mayfield Fund, where he waxed on in a section of its Web site about his love of poker, noting that he regularly played, &#8220;very high-limit or no-limit hold &#8216;em games in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, and have played against many of today&#8217;s top pros.&#8221; We like him already.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/cohler.jpg' alt='cohler' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Matt Cohler</strong>, vice president of strategy and business operations, was one of Facebook&#8217;s earliest hires and feels like the Yoda figure at Facebook to me (he is also in charge of the critical international expansion). A New Yorker, he went to Yale, worked in China, was a management consultant at McKinsey and was also part of LinkedIn&#8217;s founding team. And don&#8217;t be fooled by the baby-faced looks&#8211;he apparently worked for a year as a jazz musician in Europe and, therefore, is a hep cat.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/yu.jpg' alt='yu' class='centered'/></p>
<p><strong>Gideon Yu</strong> is also a recent hire at Facebook as its chief financial officer. Like that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/25/death.cat.ap/index.html">cat named Oscar who can detect death</a>, Yu seems to have an amazing ability to get a sweet job at the hot Web company of the moment at just the right time. Case in point: He left Yahoo as its treasurer and went to YouTube as its CFO just a month before it sold to Google for $1.6 billion, a deal in which Yu apparently  played a key role. Then, on his way to a spot as a junior partner at also-hot VC firm Sequoia Partners, he grabbed the Facebook CFO job in July. I say we watch where Yu goes and follow stealthily behind so as not to be detected.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/dustin.jpg' alt='dustin' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Is it just me or does <strong>Dustin Moskovitz</strong> remind you of cuddly actor Seth Rogen from &#8220;Knocked Up&#8221; with his hair cut short? As Facebook&#8217;s vice president of product engineering, he oversees the site&#8217;s architecture and more (like mobile strategy and development). More importantly, the economics major shared that Harvard dorm room with Zuckerberg, where they and others created the service (while most other people&#8217;s college dorm mates basically drank beer and passed out).</p>
<p> <img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2007/08/dangelo.jpg' alt='dangelo' class='centered'/></p>
<p>Last but not least, Chief Technology Officer <strong>Adam D&#8217;Angelo</strong>, a longtime Zuckerberg pal. He&#8217;s in charge of keeping Facebook from breaking apart as it grows, kind of like Scotty in &#8220;Star Trek.&#8221; But there&#8217;s no warp drive that can save the site from all those surly college students and surlier Silicon Valley types if it all went kerflooey. His Facebook bio says the computer-science grad from the California Institute of Technology was one of the &#8220;top 24 finalists in the Topcoder Collegiate Challenge, which tests the ability to design and implement complex algorithms in a timed environment.&#8221; Color me impressed, even though I have no idea what that means.</p>
<p>In any case, I look forward to meeting you one and all. </p>
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