How I Lost 170 Million Dollars: My Time as #30 at Facebook

Before Facebook was a household name, it was a young company with a small staff and a lot of energy. Noah Kagan joined as its thirtieth employee and spent his early years there in the thick of it. This memoir looks back on that period: the long hours, the late-night atmosphere, the parties that were as much a part of the culture as the code, and the colorful personalities who filled the workplace. Kagan writes about the people he worked alongside, the chaos of a fast-growing startup, and what it felt like to be present for a company that would change so much. Part personal story and part snapshot of Silicon Valley in its formative years, the book offers an insider's view of what it took to be there at the start.