Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rings In IPO, With A Hackers’ Touch
With a soldering iron; a couple of capacitors, resistors, and relays from RadioShack; and quite a bit of dissembling and tinkering, a handful of Facebook software engineers (and friends) hacked the Nasdaq bell, earning themselves a full-fledged badge of geekiness.
With a soldering iron; a couple of capacitors, resistors, and relays from RadioShack; and quite a bit of dissembling and tinkering, a handful of Facebook software engineers (and friends) hacked the Nasdaq bell (see video below), earning themselves a full-fledged badge of geekiness.
In just three days, the small team of five engineers figured out how to hack the Nasdaq bell so that the exact second Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg pressed the button, the following message would appear on his timeline to open the day’s trading on the stock exchange:
Mark Zuckerberg has listed a company on NASDAQ — FB
Prior to ringing the bell, Zuckerberg was presented with a commemorative hoodie by Nasdaq Chief Executive Officer Bob Greifeld, and he gave a short speech (video below from Bloomberg TV below), in which he said:
I just want to say a few things,...
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