Peter Thiel is a venture capitalist (he's the managing partner of the Founders Fund) who provided the initial investment for Facebook.
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He has since raised a $9 million series A round of funding from investors (including Peter Thiel and Sean Parker) for his startup Asana, which - apparently? - will create "collaborative task and project management software." So they can jump right into the gaping hole that Google Wave left behind after that project drowned in a tidal wave of public indifference.įacebook cofounder and Zuckerberg roomie number 2 Chris Hughes left Faceook to manage online organizing of Barack Obama's social networking efforts during the 2008 campaign. Dustin Moskovitz (played by Joseph Mazzello)ĭustin Moskovitz, who shared a room with the other Facebook cofounders (Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin) at Harvard continued to work at Facebook as Vice President in charge of the technical staff until 2008.You should totally read this Vanity Fair profile of him. Parker was pushed out of his position as Facebook President in 2006 after being arrested for cocaine possession, although charges were never filed. In 2007, Parker also cofounded Causes - a Facebook platform that helps people donate to their favorite nonprofits and which currently has 90 million users. It was acquired by Comcast in 2008 for $150 million. He went on to found Plaxo, an online rolodex to help people keep track of changing contact info in their networks. In case you missed that era, Parker got famous and made the RIAA really grumpy and litigious in the process by creating Napster. Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake)įirst of all, who knew that Sean Parker was so involved in the beginnings of Facebook? Did you guys know that? I totally missed that.Based on my extensive research into SumZero during the last 25 seconds, it does not seem like it is a whole lot of fun. Divya Narenda (played by Max Minghella)ĭivya Narenda (the third partner in ConnectU) went on to cofound SumZero, a social network for investors working at hedge funds.The Internet does not seem to know what he's currently doing for a living. He likes Greek Yogurt and lives in New York.
Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield)Įduardo Saverin was one of the co-founders of Facebook and currently owns a 5 percent share in the company.The Winklevosses placed sixth in the men's coxless pairs in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and they're currently busy still suing Facebook. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (played by Armie Hammer)Ĭameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the identical twin Olympic rowers who founded ConnectU - Cameron later cofounded Guest Of A Guest - received a reported $65 million settlement from Facebook in a suit that alleged Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract with them and stolen their idea.Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg).
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