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...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...
...just five months, what began as a follow-up project to Zuckerberg??s failed HotOrNot.com spin-off, Facemash.com, became an internet phenomenon in the same boat as multimillion dollar companies like Friendster and Tribe. And a sophomore computer science concentrator in Kirkland House, his detail-oriented roommate, and a mutual friend with an eye for business became Silicon Valley executives—de facto CEO, project manager, and CFO, respectively...
Moskovitz had a tough time letting go of a summertime gig as a UA—a computer assistant—back at Harvard. But Zuckerberg eventually convinced him it was best for the team to stick together and work in a place that was, in Zuckerberg??s words, “kind of remote, without many distractions...
Silicon Valley romanticism also motivated Zuckerberg??s move to California. “Palo Alto was kind of like this mythical place where all the techs used to come from,” he says. “So I was like, I want to check that...
Take, for example, Zuckerberg??s recent ski trip to Vail Resort in Colorado, planned as a vacation for Zuckerberg and Moskovitz—a respite from days of coding and trips to the server racks in the San Francisco Bay Area. That weekend, however, problems arose with the site, and the server facility didn’t have enough power to support the steady traffic of bored college students looking up “singles” who like “trance music” at two in the morning...