How the #NewsFeed turned #Facebook into a #juggernaut

source: https://www.theverge.com/23207172/facebook-meta-newsfeed-mark-zuckerberg-land-of-the-giants-podcast

To begin, we go back nearly two decades to #Zuckerberg’s first big bet: the creation of the News Feed. It’s a controversial origin story that shows the young founder’s initial vision for connecting people at scale, regardless of the consequences. In this episode, we talked to Ruchi #Sanghvi, one of Facebook’s first engineers who helped build the #News #Feed, which at launch, was disliked enough to spark widespread protest from users. “It was the first time we actually got a security guard to stand outside the doors of the Facebook offices,” she says.

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