You may not have heard of the others, but all of them left a valuable mark. They were responsible for everything you've come to love, like the photo app, the ability to tag friends, and even Facebook's blue/white color scheme. Many of Facebook's first employees are no longer at the company. Some left to join reputable startups like Twitter; others started their own companies like Quora and YouTube. Those who remained at Facebook now have executive positions. Out of the first 20 employees, only two were women. The First 20 Facebook Employees: Where Are They Now?
Gilles Mischler built and designed Facebook's IT infrastructure from the ground up.
You can thank engineer Scott Marlette for being able to visually stalk all of your friends. He created Facebook's photo application.
Dan Neff had a short, 5 month stint as one of Facebook's first employees and was responsible for rolling out new site features.
Position at Facebook: Build/Release Engineer
Current Company/Position: Release/Operations Lead at Adobe Systems
Source: LinkedIn
Aaron Sittig was brought on by Sean Parker. He created the concept of tagging friends in Facebook pictures.
Position at Facebook: Design Strategy Lead
Current Company/Position: Still employed by Facebook
Source: LinkedIn, The Facebook Effect, Gigaom
Nick Heyman was in charge of handling Facebook's explosive traffic and was there when the site grew from 3 million to 13 million users and beyond.
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Position at Facebook: Director of Operations
Current Company/Position: Manager of Operations at Twitter
Source: LinkedIn, Force10 Networks
Naomi Gleit was tasked with making sure "literally everyone in the world was on the site."
Position at Facebook: Product Manager on Growth
Current Company/Position: N/A
Source: LinkedIn, Newsweek
Steve King directed Facebook's media sales and was responsible for getting the first big advertisers on board like Panasonic and Microsoft.
Position at Facebook: Director, Media Sales
Current Company/Position: VP Sales at LocaMedia
Source: LinkedIn, Crunchbase
Tricia Black worked at Y2M, a firm that sold ads for college magazines. Eduardo Saverin set up a meeting with Black, who began selling ads for Facebook and eventually became the first VP of Sales.
Position at Facebook: VP, Advertising Sales
Current Company/Position: Self-employed consultant
Source: LinkedIn
Steve Chen left Facebook after a few short months to start YouTube.
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Position at Facebook: Senior Software Engineer
Current Company/Position: Cofounder of YouTube
Source: LinkedIn
Next to Zuckerberg, Kevin Colleran has been the longest-serving Facebook employee. He lived with Zuckerberg in the 2004 Palo Alto summer sublet.
Position at Facebook: Global Partnerships
Current Company/Position: Still employed by Facebook
Source: LinkedIn, HBR
Matt Cohler was brought on by Peter Thiel and was formerly one of the founding members of LinkedIn.
Cohler, on the left
Position at Facebook: VP Product Management
Current Company/Position: General Partner at Benchmark Capital
Source: LinkedIn, Venturebeat
Ezra Callahan had been roommates with Sean Parker and was hired to "whittle away" at Eduardo Saverin's CFO responsibilities.
Position at Facebook: Manager of Internal Communications, Product Manager
Current Company/Position: N/A
Source: LinkedIn, The Facebook Effect
Sean Parker was an early employee at Napster and was founding president of Facebook.
Flickr/Andrew Mager
Position at Facebook: President
Current Company/Position: Founder/Chairman at Causes on Facebook and Managing Partner at Founders Fund
Source: LinkedIn
Taner Halicioglu was Facebook's first "real" employee outside of the founders. He built out the entire initial hardware infrastructure.
Eduardo Saverin was a Facebook cofounder and its first CFO. He famously sued Mark Zuckerberg and the two reached a settlement.
Position at Facebook: Cofounder
Current Company/Position: Angel investor
Source: LinkedIn
Chris Hughes cofounded Facebook and served as the site's spokesman. He later coordinated all social networking aspects of Obama's 2008 campaign.
Position at Facebook: Cofounder
Current Company/Position: Executive Director at Jumo
Source: LinkedIn
Andrew McCollum designed Facebook's first logo and worked on a side project with Zuckerberg, Wirehog.
Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook's first CTO, was Mark Zuckerberg's roommate. The two dropped out of Harvard together to move to California and work on Facebook.
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Position at Facebook: Cofounder
Current Company/Position: Cofounder at Asana
Source: LinkedIn, Forbes
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. The blue design of the site is partially because of his red-green color blindness.
Position at Facebook: Cofounder
Current Company/Position: Facebook
Source: CNN
BONUS: Adam D'Angelo was high school friends with Mark Zuckerberg and eventually left Facebook to found Quora.
Position at Facebook: CTO
Current Company/Position: Founder of Quora
Source: LinkedIn, Crunchbase
BONUS: James Pereira was Facebook's 7th employee, but no one seems to know what has happened to him
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Position at Facebook: Engineer
Current Company/Position: N/A
Source: LinkedIn, Quora
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-20-employees-2011-5?op=1#ixzz1l3hzHZl9
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