How Mark Zuckerberg Began To Embrace The Idea Of Ads In Facebook’s News Feed
"Wouldn't it be fun to build a billion-dollar business in six months?" That question, posed by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth in May 2012, during a walk around the social network’s campus in Menlo Park, Calif., sparked the company’s overhaul of its advertising infrastructure, and it marked just one of the anecdotes included in a wide-ranging, detailed story for The Wall Street Journal by Evelyn M. Rusli.
“Wouldn’t it be fun to build a billion-dollar business in six months?” That question, posed by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth in May 2012, during a walk around the social network’s campus in Menlo Park, Calif., sparked the company’s overhaul of its advertising infrastructure, and it marked just one of the anecdotes included in a wide-ranging, detailed story for The Wall Street Journal by Evelyn M. Rusli.
The project was referred to internally as “Prioritization,” Rusli wrote, and it marked Zuckerberg’s shedding of his reluctance to include ads in Facebook’s News Feed.
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