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...move to California was a logical step for the team, Zuckerberg says. He hoped to spend the summer working on Wirehog, the file-sharing offshoot to TheFacebook. McCollum, who helped Zuckerberg create Wirehog, had an internship with Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California. Wirehog’s third founder, Adam D’Angelo, a friend of Zuckerberg’s from high school who now attends CalTech, didn’t want to travel too far from school, but Zuckerberg figured he could bring him up to Palo Alto...
Meanwhile, Saverin parted ways with the programming team to work full-time selling advertisements for TheFacebook in New York...
...over the summer that TheFacebook added Parker to its team. When Zuckerberg learned Parker was looking for a place to stay, he invited him to crash at Casa Facebook. Parker showed up with two earthly possessions, Zuckerberg says: a BMW 5-Series, which he had bought with stock from his second company, Plaxo, and a pair of “ridiculously nice speakers.” That...
Parker grew close with Zuckerberg, McCollum, and Moskovitz and eventually joined them for the year, helping out with TheFacebook and Wirehog...
...First, TheFacebook boys had to learn to follow the business schedule. The team wakes up early to deal with the managers of the server and bandwidth facilities. Moskovitz might take a mid-morning trip to install new servers in the racks at the facility in San Jose to prepare for another expansion. Zuckerberg wakes up early in order to coordinate the advertisements that need to go up on the site that morning, since the East Coast business day ends at 2 p.m. for those on Pacific Standard Time...