Facebook Reportedly Courting Obama Former Aide
Robert Gibbs, former press secretary to Barack Obama, has reportedly been talking to Facebook about joining the company.
Facebook has reportedly been courting Robert Gibbs, former press secretary to Barack Obama, about a possible job with the social network.
Assuming Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times‘ unnamed sources are correct, the talks are in preliminary stages. Gibbs left the White House in February after holding the job for two months. Certainly, for Gibbs to even consider such a position makes a strong statement about Facebook’s attractiveness as an employer.
However, we think Sorkin’s mistaken in presuming that a 2012 initial public offering influences the hiring decision on either side of the equation — because it contradicts not only what company executives have repeatedly said about not going public but also what Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has written on his own profile on the social network, while using the Questions application:
We aren’t planning to go public anytime soon.
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