Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World
- 4h 25m
- Mike Hoefflinger
- AMACOM
- 2017
Facebook’s founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connect with friends...and the rest is history. But for the people who actually molded this great idea into a game-changing $300 billion company, the experience was far more tumultuous and uncertain than we might expect.
Mike Hoefflinger was one of those Facebook insiders. As a computer engineer turned marketing innovator who worked with COO Sheryl Sandberg, Hoefflinger had a front-row seat to the company’s growing pains, stumbles, and reinventions.
Becoming Facebook tells the coming-of-age story of the now venerable giant. Filled with insights and anecdotes from crises averted and challenges solved, the book tracks the company’s development, uncovering lessons learned on its way to greatness:
- How Facebook recovered from its “disastrous” IPO
- How the growth team achieved the impossible
- Why Facebook’s News Feed ads were the company’s most important business decision ever
- How Google+ attacked and lost
- Why—and how—Instagram and WhatsApp were added to the mix
- What the company does to win the talent wars
- What makes Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Cox, and other A-teamers tick
- Which products and technical advancements are on the horizon and why
- And much more
Intimate, fast-paced, and deeply informative, Becoming Facebook shares the true story of how Zuckerberg joined the ranks of iconic CEOs like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos—as Facebook grows up, overcomes setbacks, and works to connect the world.
About the Author
Mike has 25 years’ experience in Silicon Valley. After working directly for Andy Grove at Intel and as general manager of the Intel Inside program, he moved to Facebook to serve as Head of Global Business Marketing. During his nearly seven years there, the teams he built helped dramatically grow the advertising business. He is now a Silicon Valley–based entrepreneur-in-residence at XSeed Capital, startup advisor and author.
In this Book
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The Bell Tolls—Half the Company it Used to Be
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Finding Your Inner Zuck—Everything at Facebook Starts with Mark Zuckerberg, but it Doesn't End There
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How Facebook Turned down $1 Billion
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How Facebook Became Your Lens on the World
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How Facebook Grows … and Grows
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How Facebook Built a $10 Billion Business in Three Years
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How Facebook Goes Fast
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How Facebook Beat Google
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How Facebook Became More than Facebook
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How Facebook Plays the Long Game
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How Facebook Wins the Talent Wars
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How Facebook Became the Biggest of the Big
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Messaging Becomes the Medium—Two More Giant Apps and an Artificial Intelligence Based on Trillions of Pieces of Data
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Connecting the Next Billion People—The Most Questionable Business Decision for the Best Reasons
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“Transporting” a Billion of Us with VR and AR—Building the Last Screen
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What If Facebook “Wins”?—Reknitting the Pangea of the Mind
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Failure isn't—Facebook Doesn't Always Hit it Out of the Park, and That's a Good Thing
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Nothing Lasts Forever?—No Technology Company is Immune to Disruption
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Notes
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