“We really thought carefully about it and wanted to find a special environment where we really could grow these teams and grow these careers and work with customers, work with people who use Facebook.”
Facebook head of online operations Brady Burnett, on why the Silicon Valley-based social network has chosen to exile its customer-service drones to Austin, KVUE, 12 March 2010
“Someone is already trying to make a dating site. But they made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them. So I’m like delaying it so it won’t be ready until after the Facebook thing comes out.”
An instant message purportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to cofounder Eduardo Saverin in December 2003 on his plans to sabotage a rival social-networking site, Business Insider, 5 March 2010
“A lot of companies can go off course because of corporate pressures. I don’t know what we are going to be building five years from now. I don’t know what we are going to be building three years from now.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on his aversion to strategery at the social network, Wall Street Journal, 3 March 2010
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