En ny bog går bag om social netværk sitet Facebook. Inside Facebook, der er skrevet af en af de første ansatte hos Facebook, giver et blik ind bag kulisserne hos en af de nye hotte Web 2.0 virksomheder.

As an early engineer, I reveal the inside of Facebook’s explosive growth as it became the premiere online environment for US college students. Including, how and by whom products were made, how you can use them best, views on what makes social networks valuable, and where this industry trends are headed.

Forfatteren Karel M. Baloun forsøger både at give et indblik i kulturen omkring Facebook og, men også nogle gode råd til, hvordan man får chancen for at arbejde for en ny lovende upstart internet virksomhed eller endda starte sin egen. Jeg har kun hurtigt skimmet bogen igennem, så jeg kan ikke give nogen egentlig anmeldelse, men her er er par citater fra bogen:

Over the summer of 2004, Zuck and Dustin made the trek out West, since here, in Silicon Valley between IBM, Cisco, Apple, Stanford, Berkeley, Yahoo and Google34, is where everything hot on the Internet happens. Facebook was already clearly going to become big, since it had exploded across every Ivy league school where it had been introduced, up to 2 million members. So Zuck wanted investment and connections.

Belief and vision are key part of success. Zuck was blessed with an amazing early adoption rate at his first schools, so it didn’t take complex analytics or fuzzy math to project that other schools would behave similarly. Even an outsider like me or my senior-executive-type friends David or Dion could judge that this was likely. So he could see it, and rockstar like media interviews reinforced his belief. Also, Zuck was blessed with two early executives who could powerfully share his vision.

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