Showing posts with label IPO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IPO. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2012

How Zuckerberg does it?

Today is Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. At 28, is Zukerberg grown up enough to lead a public company valued at $ 100 billion (it was a startup 8 years ago), asks NYT. It goes on to list his style and his advisors.

Reed Hasting CEO of Netflix, a Facebook board member on IPO
Donald E Graham, CEO Washington Post on Management
Sheryl Sandberg CEO Facebook - mentor on operations management and communications.
Marc Andreessen, co-founder Netscape, FB Board member on Management and Product design.
Matt Cohler, Benchmark Capital (former FB VP) on Team Building and Company culture
Reid Hoffman, Co-founder, LinkedIn, on scaling businesses and on China
Peter Thiel, Co-founder Paypal on Corporate Strategy and Economic Issues
Sean Parker, co-founder, Napster on Financial Structure
Jim Breyer, Accel Partners on Hiring and Operations
Bill Gates on Philanthropy.

Quotable quote: "He is a sponge terms of learning. He has a higher ask-to-talk ratio than anyone else I know".
" He is constatnly asking 'Why?' Why? Why?' and he has a very clear sense of what he is good at and somewhere between average and medicore at"

Original article at: http://nyti.ms/J4lRAh