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  • also-rans

    Facebook's wannabe founders

    By Owen Thomas, 8:42 PM on Mon Jul 16 2007, 9,344 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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    As Facebook's theoretical value soars, the interest of its hangers-ons grows practical indeed. I think that's why Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra are pursuing their lawsuit against sandal-sporting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with such tireless vigor. But the three Harvard school chums, who say they hired Zuckerberg to work on their competing ConnectU site before he launched what became Facebook, are far from the only ones pressing a claim to have been present at Facebook's creation. (For the record, long-suffering Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker says the company's official cofounders are Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskowitz.) After the jump, a gallery of everyone who's not an official founder — but who'd like to be.

    Facebook founder wannabes

    • Tyler Winklevoss
    • Tyler Winklevoss
    • Sean Parker
    • Sean Parker
    • cameronwinklevoss
    • Eduardo Saverin
    • Divya Narendra
    • Adam D'Angelo
    • Andrew McCollum
    • Andrew McCollum
    • Adam D'Angelo
    • Divya Narendra
    • cameronwinklevoss
    • Eduardo Saverin

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    Yet another hoodie-wearing Harvard kid drops out of Facebook

    Following fellow early Facebook employees CTO Adam D'Angelo and VP Matt Cohler, Facebook's head of data and analytics Jeff Hammerbacher will leave the company. More »
    hires Adam D'Angelo

    Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo's next move

    Adam D'Angelo's departure "broke my heart," one Facebook insider told us. But Facebook's backers are shedding no tears. We hear that both Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Accel Partners are considering D'Angelo for an entrepreneur-in-residence role —
    exits Adam D'Angelo

    Facebook CTO leaves a company that's graduating from high school

    The Facebook Prom was prophetic, signaling farewells, graduation, and the ending of teenage ties. As his colleagues were preparing to dance the night away at the Metreon, CTO Adam D'Angelo, a high school buddy of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, was saying his farewells. More »

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