Course

Facebook: Hiring the Right People and Promoting Free Thinking

Stanford University
Course Lectures
  • Mark Zuckerberg, founder of TheFacebook, gives an example to demonstrate product development and experience at Facebook and talks about how their product has evolved with the company.

  • Team Dynamics
    Mark Zuckerberg

    Zuckerberg discusses the evolution of Facebook's founding team from a bunch of college friends to a large team of several engineers, its changing dynamics and his role as a leader in the company.

  • Hiring the Right People
    Mark Zuckerberg

    Zuckerberg reveals the skills and the balance of experience he looks for when recruiting college graduates while building and evolving his company going forward.

  • Generating Revenue
    Mark Zuckerberg

    An early interview with Mark Zuckerberg at the dawn of Facebook's popularity unveils the opportunities that surface from a mammoth amount of page views and sticky user loyalty. A hot web property can reel in millions in ad revenue alone.

  • Zuckerberg talks about the entrepreneurial skills he acquired in college that led him to building Facebook.

  • Amongst his different entrepreneurial talents, Jim Breyer, Managing Partner of Accel Partners, talks about the importance of Zuckerberg's listening skills that have helped him effectively lead Facebook to success.

  • Investing in New Ideas
    Mark Zuckerberg

    Breyer discusses why Accel Partners decided to invest in Facebook and what they look for in new ideas before they convert them into ventures.

  • People can't be forced to be friends, notes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, but innovative entrepreneurs can facilitate a friendly work environment. He attributes part of his enterprise's success to casual, unstructured communication woven into the work day. His hope? To create the space for co-workers to freely associate ideas and stretch their imagination.

  • Challenges Going Forward
    Mark Zuckerberg

    Zuckerberg and Breyer discuss the ongoing challenges they face and the tradeoffs they have to make as Facebook continues to grow and evolve.