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How Facebook Has Changed Since Going Public 1 Year Ago

May 18, 2013 by Seth Fiegerman Leave a Comment

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. "It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected."

In the year since the Facebook IPO, some things haven't changed: Zuckerberg still sports his trademark hoodies, employees still rate their company and their founder highly, and Facebook still talks about its grand mission to make the world more open and connected. But the era of Facebook operating or being perceived as anything other than a corporation seems more distant with each passing day Read more...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Approval Rating at Facebook Up Since IPO

May 14, 2013 by Seth Fiegerman Leave a Comment

Just hours before Facebook became a publicly traded company last May, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at a pre-IPO hackathon and received a standing ovation from thousands of his employees.

In the year since then, those same employees have watched as Facebook's stock plummeted to less than half its IPO value before recovering somewhat, and presumably heard some of the negative comments from investors and analysts about Facebook's long-term viability as a company. Yet, almost exactly one year after that night, employees appear to approve of Zuckerberg as much as ever — perhaps more so in fact.

Zuckerberg had a 99% approval rating at Facebook for the full year since the IPO compared to 95% in the year leading up to the IPO, according to data provided to Mashable by Glassdoor, a job site that features anonymous employee reviews for thousands of companies. In fact, Zuckerberg had a 100% approval rating in three of four quarters last year based on new reviews on the site during those time periods, though it dipped slightly to 96% in the first quarter of this year. Read more...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Approval Rating at Facebook Up Since IPO

May 14, 2013 by Seth Fiegerman Leave a Comment

Just hours before Facebook became a publicly traded company last May, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at a pre-IPO hackathon and received a standing ovation from thousands of his employees.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Joins the $1 Salary Club

April 27, 2013 by Quartz Leave a Comment

Facebook confirmed in a filing that Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's founder and CEO, is taking a $1 salary this year, and foregoing any bonuses.

But he's not exactly taking a vow of poverty. When Facebook went public last year, Zuckerberg exercised 60 million stock options, then worth nearly $2.3 billion, buying those shares for next to nothing. (He sold half of the stock to cover his tax bill.) And he's still sitting on another 60 million stock options that can be exercised on Nov. 7, 2015, for the same dirt-cheap price of $0.06.

All of those shares give Zuckerberg plenty of incentive to keep Facebook in good financial health, although he is on record saying, "We don't wake up in the morning with the primary goal of making money," and isn't really beholden to shareholders, since he controls a majority of proxy votes. Read more...

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Zuckerberg Announces Immigration Reform Group in Op-Ed

April 11, 2013 by Todd Wasserman Leave a Comment

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg waded further into the world of politics on Thursday with a Washington Post op-ed announcing FWD.us, a group of tech luminaries arguing for immigration reform.

In the opinion piece, Zuckerberg describes how, while teaching middle school, he met a student who showed promise but had no hopes of going to college because the student was an undocumented immigrant who was born in Mexico. "These students are smart and hardworking, and they should be part of our future," Zuckerberg writes. He then goes on to explain how his great-grandparents came through Ellis Island and — a couple of generations later — his family had joined the professional class. "None of this could have happened without a welcoming immigration policy, a great education system and the world’s leading scientific community that created the Internet." Read more...

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Mark Zuckerberg Moonlights as a Middle School Teacher

April 4, 2013 by Todd Wasserman Leave a Comment

In case this Facebook thing doesn't work out, Mark Zuckerberg can always fall back on his second job: middle school teacher.

The Facebook CEO disclosed to Wired that he teaches a class every week to a middle school in East Menlo Park, Calif. Zuckerberg says he was influenced by his wife, Priscilla, who went into teaching after graduating from Harvard. Zuckerberg says the class is "on how to build a business."

"Every Tuesday we go over one skill, and each group has a side project," Zuckerberg told Wired. "When the class ends, they’ll come to Facebook and sell the products they’ve made, like they’re marketing them." Read more...

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How to Watch the Facebook Android Event Online

April 4, 2013 by Samantha Murphy Leave a Comment

Facebook is holding a highly-anticipated press event at its headquarters to reveal its "new home on Android." Could we see a new Facebook-centric smartphone? If the rumors are any indication, definitely.

The company will be livestreaming the announcement from its Menlo Park, Calif. office, and you can watch at Facebook Live. The Mashable team will also be on site, and we'll be live blogging the event as the news unfolds. Stay tuned for a link.

SEE ALSO: What to Expect From Facebook's Android Announcement

Rumors and leaks have been swirling about the Internet for awhile, pointing mostly to a concept of a HTC-built smartphone called Facebook First. Although it would have all the makings of a midrange smartphone — such as a 4.3-inch 720p display, a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 and so on — the software would be the star of the show (if, that is, the rumors are true). Read more...

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