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The 25 most successful Facebook alumni of all time
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For some, working at Facebook is a career peak. For others, it's just the beginning.
These 25 Facebook alumni (a number of whom were integral members of the site's original team) have gone on to invest in and found some of the biggest companies and buzziest startups to date.
Check out what they've been up to since leaving their positions at the world's largest social network.
Adam D'Angelo started the wildly successful Q&A site Quora.
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Position at Facebook: June 2004 - December 2005; CTO, November 2006 - June 2008
D'Angelo was Zuckerberg's high school friend who, according to D'Angelo's LinkedIn page, was in charge of "random stuff" during his first year and a half at Facebook. He became CTO in late 2006, leading new product development and managing the site's rapidly growing engineering team.
In 2009, D'Angelo founded the Q&A site Quora. D'Angelo's idea of success for Quora? "...If we could double the amount of knowledge available to people on the internet, that would be a really good outcome to me."
Aditya Agarwal cofounded Cove, which was acquired by Dropbox.
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Position at Facebook: Engineer, director of product engineering, September 2005 - December 2010
After leaving Facebook, Agarwal and fellow Facebook alum and wife Ruchi Sanghvi cofounded Cove, which was acquired by Dropbox in early 2012. Agarwal is now VP of engineering at Dropbox where he oversees the company's engineering groups including new product development, infrastructure, platform, and operations. He is also a board member of the Indian e-commerce site, Flipkart.
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When joining a startup, don’t ask what position, what role: Paytm's Ruchi Sanghvi
Paytm's newest board member, Ruchi Sanghvi, needs no introduction to hyper growth companies. With a resume that boasts positions at Facebook and Dropbox, Sanghvi is an old hand in Silicon Valley. She is also quite familiar with the exhausting grind that startups spawn.
That was the reason Sanghvi quit Dropbox, her last company, late 2013. "I've been in the startup world for over 10 years. It was all about working 24/7. I wanted to step back, gain perspective about what was happening around me," she says, speaking over the phone from the US.
"There are still tribes out there that practise cannibalism," she adds. Sanghvi carried cartons of rice, cigarettes etc to use as payments for people to ferry them around.
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She's also managed to pick up and hone a few hobbies during her travel. "I picked up surfingduring my time in Bali, started practising yoga more religiously. And playing tennis," she says. On the work front, she's yet to decide what to do next. "If I knew, I'd already be doing it. It's a trick question. I have been quite fascinated with genomics though, brushing up my understanding of the space, even applying to a few companies. But it was difficult to find the right position since I didn't have a background in molecular biology. I did however end up investing in a couple of genomic companies like Color," she says.
Ruchi Sanghvi during her trip to the Amazon river
Sanghvi's a risk taker. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, she was on her way to New York for a math modeling role at a derivatives trading firm. The tiny cubicle sizes and 100-hour weeks, with little time for much else, changed her mind. She decided to move West, without a job in hand. "It was difficult to quit without anything in hand," she says. "As a student on a visa, if things hadn't worked, I
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