The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

‘People You May Know’ helped the social media giant grow exponentially. One man made it happen. An exclusive excerpt from ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’

Steven Levy
Marker
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11 min readFeb 25, 2020

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Founder/CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, speaks onstage during “The State of the Valley: Where’s the Juice?” at t
Chamath Palihapitiya. Photo: Mike Windle

Early in her career at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg had a series of conversations with Chamath Palihapitiya…

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Steven Levy
Marker

Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.