Really interesting departure, strange. You wouldn't expect the guy managing the hottest part of the hottest web co. to leave so suddenly. Maybe the platform is not having the desired effect? Maybe he fought over money/options?
mike
· 1 year ago
See the pattern:
--- CTO leaves
VP Product Management leaves
Director of Platform Product Marketing leaves ---
These are 3 people one might assume would be intimately familiar with Facebook *as a business*. One might also assume that whatever their option grants were, they would make them sufficiently wealthy in a few years *if* Facebook could turn itself into a successful business.
So either (a) it really sucks to work there, so much so that it is more desirable to walk away from it then stick it out, or (b) it's just not *worth* it.
Time will tell I suppose.
Carol
· 1 year ago
Why is he leaving? Facebook is getting bigger and bigger. alot question marks..
Burak
· 1 year ago
A number of Facebook employees were able to sell some of their options recently (at $3-4bn valuation). There was a suggestion that some of these employees would take the money to set something up on their own. But Ling has been there less than a year, so I would be surprised if his options vested so early.
Daniel
· 1 year ago
Correct, he didn't even last a year there, which looks bad on a resume of course, but anyway... you're also correct that he probably didn't snag any vested options in the departure either. It would be very unusual (and foolish) for the board to allow options to vest sub-year, no matter how good a negotiator an employee might be.
Ka-ching! + Ling lands sunny-side-up back in the good o' Google fold:
"Ben Ling–the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social-networking site earlier this week–is about to head back to Google, this time taking a job leading monetization efforts at YouTube, according to several sources."
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CTO leaves
VP Product Management leaves
Director of Platform Product Marketing leaves
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These are 3 people one might assume would be intimately familiar with Facebook *as a business*. One might also assume that whatever their option grants were, they would make them sufficiently wealthy in a few years *if* Facebook could turn itself into a successful business.
So either (a) it really sucks to work there, so much so that it is more desirable to walk away from it then stick it out, or (b) it's just not *worth* it.
Time will tell I suppose.
Facebook is getting bigger and bigger.
alot question marks..
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080814/ben-ling-la...
Ka-ching! + Ling lands sunny-side-up back in the good o' Google fold:
"Ben Ling–the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social-networking site earlier this week–is about to head back to Google, this time taking a job leading monetization efforts at YouTube, according to several sources."