Top Highlights

• “How many toilets are there in the United States?” How many are there??? What does that have to do with anything I’d do at the job?
• He looks at me. “Who are you?” “Noah,” I said. “It’s my first day.” “Noah — got it. Uh, I just fired your boss Doug,” he explains. It’s my first day and my boss gets fired? Shit, am I next? Only one hour in the day, FML. So to appear witty and get on Mark’s good side right away, I said: “How do I avoid messing up so I don’t get fired, too?” I said....
• laughed, but I was serious. “Don’t try to sell my company out from under me,” he answered.
• This group of people didn’t feel like the friends I would choose to hang out with outside of work. They were smarter than my current friends which intimidated me, and only now in retrospect, helped me grow so much further than I could ever imagine. The one thing we all had in common was a deep love and commitment to Facebook.
• Facebook hardly reacted to what other sites did. We created the features and things we wanted, not what the users wanted.