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At Facebook we re constantly connecting with interesting people

Summary: At Facebook we re constantly connecting with interesting people from experts in their field academics and researchers to celebrities or visitors to our office Occasionally we ll share these conversations on the Facebook blog in our Connecting with series I recently had the opportunity to speak with Brian Phillips a co founder of which is one of 24 companies that in the incubator program for startups building Facebook applications and that announced funding today Read the previous blog post in this series The basis for your company is to introduce friends of friends on Facebook How did you come up with the idea Personal experience One of our co founders Skye Lee is a consummate matchmaker She loves nothing more than to set me up A typical day I ll get a phone call from her before we even start thinking about business I just found this really cute girl on the street and she s single You should take her to coffee next week I told her all about you When we started to think about business ideas it hit us we should just make it easier to introduce people by applying cool technology like Facebook Connect What have you learned with fbFund REV this summer First and foremost the collaboration has been great We re co located with 23 other fantastic start ups with brilliant people behind them and we re all working on things on the Facebook Platform If we have a question problem or challenge surely someone in the building has had the same question problem or challenge before Secondly it s been really educational fbFund REV has a great curriculum with speakers who come to our office almost every other day whether it be a representative from Facebook or Tim Ferris author of The 4 Hour Workweek and experts in marketing SEO public relations or venture capital And third it s just been fun For instance every Wednesday afternoon we have weekly check ins to talk about what we re working on and afterwards the entire group goes out for a beer We have our own happy hour There s a great vibe lots of energy At Facebook we re constantly connecting with interesting people from experts in their field academics and researchers to celebrities or visitors to our office Occasionally we ll share these conversations on the Facebook blog in our Connecting with series I recently had the opportunity to speak with Brian Phillips a co founder of which is one of 24 companies that in the incubator program for startups building Facebook applications and that announced funding today Read the previous blog post in this series The basis for your company is to introduce friends of friends on Facebook How did you come up with the idea Personal experience One of our co founders Skye Lee is a consummate matchmaker She loves nothing more than to set me up A typical day I ll get a phone call from her before we even start thinking about business I just found this really cute girl on the street and she s single You should take her to coffee next week I told her all about you When we started to think about business ideas it hit us we should just make it easier to introduce people by applying cool technology like Facebook Connect What have you learned with fbFund REV this summer First and foremost the collaboration has been great We re co located with 23 other fantastic start ups with brilliant people behind them and we re all working on things on the Facebook Platform If we have a question problem or challenge surely someone in the building has had the same question problem or challenge before Secondly it s been really educational fbFund REV has a great curriculum with speakers who come to our office almost every other day whether it be a representative from Facebook or Tim Ferris author of The 4 Hour Workweek and experts in marketing SEO public relations or venture capital And third it s just been fun For instance every Wednesday afternoon we have weekly check ins to talk about what we re working on and afterwards the entire group goes out for a beer We have our own happy hour There s a great vibe lots of energy

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