Mark seemed deeply committed to it while Eduardo tried unsuccessfully to project the same confidence. Mark also expressed his intent to leave school and move to Silicon Valley to lead Facebook full-time. They said that they had not yet met with any venture capitalists, but had some initial discussions with a couple angel investors. We got down to business, and I asked Mark and Eduardo about their plans for Facebook and their interest in raising venture financing. In fact, Mark’s first comment with a broken smile was that he normally doesn’t get up this early. I arrived first, and as Mark and Eduardo came in – it was obvious they had woken up early for this meeting. Yet again, we met at Henrietta’s Table – but this time for breakfast. It was only a couple days later that I had a second meeting with Mark and Eduardo. They were right.Īfter that meeting, my mind was consumed with the potential of Facebook. While both exuded a certain naivete, they were both convinced that they were going to change the world. He was also apparently the business mind. He could have been your college roommate. He was also the technical visionary behind the scenes. He was not shy about sharing his aspirations of dominating the college market. He had a profound confidence about him that exceeded his youth. Mark and Eduardo had a complementary aspect to their partnership. We ordered some drinks, and they began to tell me the nascent but exciting story of how they, along with some others, started Facebook. We decided to sit outside given the unseasonably warm weather in Boston that day.
I showed up to the restaurant at 3:00pm and there was Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin waiting. I messaged Mark and scheduled a meeting for the very next afternoon at Henrietta’s Table – a restaurant at The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. I looked around the site and saw that it was “a Mark Zuckerberg production”. Maybe there was an investment opportunity. Since at that time I was at another venture capital firm which invested in start-ups, I was eager to meet the people behind Facebook. Facebook was the killer college dating application. You could see everything about that person that they cared to share which was a lot more than the Freshman Facebook. But now with Facebook, you could come back from class, go online, sort the network by that class, click through the photos and once you found that person – voila. The limitation of the Freshman Facebook was the limited content and the fact that if an upper classmen caught your eye, there was no reliable way to find out that person’s name or learn more about him/her. They had uploaded the Harvard course catalog into the network so that with a single drop down menu, you could sort the entire network by those taking the same class as you. The founders had made a simple yet brilliant innovation which did not exist on any other social network. After logging in and checking out the features, I had an “aha” moment. The site was only open to those with a email, but fortunately my alumni email worked liked a charm. Intrigued, I went home and checked out (which I will now refer to as Facebook).
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The Freshman Facebook was the dating (or more realistically, scouting) manual used by all freshmen to keep tabs on the classmates that caught their eye. It just came out last month and everyone is using it on campus.” Apparently some sophomores had set up a website intended to be a better online version of the Freshman Facebook – a physical book with the pictures of each member of the freshman class. As the evening drew to a close, I asked one of the current HSA managers, “What’s the coolest thing on campus these days?” Her response with conviction was, “Thefacebook. Being a past president of HSA, I made a point of attending this event just to stay in touch with the students and school. It was March of 2004 and I was attending an alumni event for Harvard Student Agencies ( HSA) – a student run company at Harvard. This story takes place a few weeks after thefacebook launched.
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