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So Is the New Facebook Tell-All Just Trashy Gossip? [Social Network]
Katherine Losse's purportedly daming Facebook tell-all Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network grabbed the Wall Street Journal's attention a few weeks ago for its recounting of Facebook's pre-Sheryl Sandberg days, when buxom comic book heroines adorned its office walls and a few lascivious engineers petitioned the few female employees for threesomes. At least that's the way Losse tells it, but, according to Techcrunch blogger Gregory Ferenstein, Losse's "memoir" amounts to little more than "cheap, gossipy, Facebook criticism," usually churned out by less respectable publishers than the Simon & Schuster imprint, Free Press.
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The Mythical Sheryl Sandberg Wink And Smile (Starring Al Pacino)
In an an email newsletter yesterday Jason Calacanis, bizarrely referring to himself as Serpico (played by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie) talks about an interaction he had with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Wall Street Journal's ... Read Post
EXCERPT: The Boy Kings, A Journey Into The Heart Of The Social Network
Excerpt from the 2012 title The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, by Katherine Losse. This episode chronicles COO Sheryl Sandberg's first days with Facebook. Read Post
Clintonista Sheryl Sandberg backs Bush's Treasury Secretary [Facebook]
During an Advertising Week panel on Monday, a moderator asked Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg how the Wall Street meltdown will effect online spending. Sandberg delivered a carefully crafted response to an expected question touching up... Read Post