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16 Former Facebook Employees Who Founded Great Companies


What impact does your present place of work have on you? When you eventually leave there,what next?

These guys worked with one of the biggest ideas on earth today.But more importantly, they learned and went ahead to create equally great businesses.

They are not the only former facebook guys doing great, these are the ones i could found for now.

I am hoping that their snapshots will inspire you to see beyond 9-5 salaried job. Feel free to drop your comments below
16 Former Facebook Employees Who Founded Great Companies

Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin MoskovitzHe co-founded Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein.

Present Startup: Asana – A team collaboration app

Net Worth: $5.2 Billion as of September 2013

Steven Chen

Steven Chen-youtubeChech (born August 18, 1978) is a Taiwanese American internet entrepreneur. He worked briefly at Facebook before leaving to found the big phenomenon, YouTube

Startup: Youtbe, if you don’t know what Youtube is, then you need prayers

Net Worth: $300 Million as of 2012


Chris Hughes

Chris HughesChris Hughes (born November 26, 1983) co-founded and served as spokesman for Facebook.

Startup: Originally founded Jumo and Later bought New Republic, a political newspaper based in DC.

Networth: $500 million.


Adam D’Angelo

Adam D’AngeloHe was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering. He left Facebook in 2008. In June 2009, he started Quora with Charlie Cheever.

Startup: Quora, a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users

Net Worth: Unknown but Quora itself is valued at over $400 Million


Charlie Cheever

Charlie CheeverCharlie Cheever (born August 2, 1981) was formerly an engineer and manager at Facebook, where he oversaw the creation of Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform

Startup: Quora, an online knowledge market.

Net Worth: Unknown but Quora itself is valued at over $400 Million

Noah Kagan

Noah KaganNoah worked in Facebook as a product manager for eight months before he was fired

Startup: Noah seems to be a serial entrepreneur, but notable among his startups is AppSummo.

Personal Website: http://okdork.com

Net Worth: Unknown, but pretty well in the millions range


Darian Shirazi

Darian ShiraziIn 2005, he joined the Facebook team as one of the first outside engineering hires. At Facebook, Darian worked on a myriad of projects.

Startup: Radius: a lead system of record for business information that normalizes data from 30,000+ sources to help marketers generate lead lists of their ideal prospects.

Net Worth: Unknown


Ryan Merket

Ryan MerketDuring his time with Facebook, Ryan was part of the Developer Network team supporting major brands. Prior to his Facebook days, Ryan co-founded the widely used Ping.fm.

Personal Website: http://ryanmerket.com/

Startup: AppStores.com, App Galleries

Net Worth: Unknown

Ankur Pansari

Ankur PansariAnkur was Facebook’s first Partner Engineer and roughly 80th engineer. He worked on all of the partner facing products across beacon, pages, ads, platform, mobile, and connect.

Startup: Artillery: A browser based gaming console. Ankur raised 2.5 Million Dollars for Development of Artillery.

Networth: Unknown

Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff HammerbacherRegarded as one of the most powerful mathematicians and scientist on earth, Jeff worked in Facebook as a data storage analyst before he left to found Cloudera with a friend,

Startup: Cloud era: An enterprise software company that provides Apache Hadoop-based software, support and services, and training to data driven enterprises.

Net Worth: Unknown


Doug Hirsch

Doug HirschDoug is the CEO of GoodRx. He joined Facebook in 2005 as vice president of Product, where he built Facebook photos and other products.

Startup: GoodRX, Daily strength – the web’s largest community for people facing health and life challenges.

Net Worth: Unknown


Eric Frenkiel

Eric FrenkielEric worked at Facebook on partnership development. He was named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 list of technology innovators.

Startup: MemSQL: the highest performing in-memory database that accelerates applications, provides real-time analytics, and combines structured and semi-structured data into a consolidated Big Data solution.

Net Worth: Unknown


Dave Morin

Dave Morin was an early member of the Facebook team, he left in 2010 to work on his Dave Morinstartup

Personal Website: http://davemorin.com/

Startup: Path: a beautiful, ad-free social networking platform for private messaging and sharing photos, videos, music, and more with the people in your life who matter most.

Net worth: Unknown


Justin Mitchel

Justin MitchelEx-engineering manager Facebook Photos, angel investor, snowboarder, guitarist, science/econ nerd, dreamer of big things.

Startup: Pave: Pave empowers young people to advance their careers with mentorship and funding from backers who believe in them. In return, these young “prospects” offer their backers a financial return: a small share of income for 10 years.

Net Worth: Unknown


Perry Tam

Perry TamA former Facebook staff, Perry Tam is CEO and co-founder of Storm8, the leading social game developer on iPhone and Android with more than 10 million daily

Startup: Storm8: Storm8, Inc. is the leading developer of social games for iOS and Android, with more than 600 million total downloads to date.

Net Worth: Unknown


Jonathan Ehrlich

Jonathan EhrlichEhrlich was a marketing director at Facebook, where he oversaw consumer and brand marketing.

Startup: Copious: an app that makes your friends love you more by letting them claim awesome items you no longer want or need.

Net Worth: Unknown


You

I need to complete this post with your name included.Right now,you are either still looking for a good job or you already are working somewhere or you have a business or just an idea.

I believe in you, so make sure we read your own story soon.

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