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Katherine Losse: A Glimpse Past Facebook's Wall
Everyone, meet Katherine Losse, Employee #51. In 2005 she was one of two female employees at Facebook and is now the author of a new juicy read, "The Boy Kings." Her message in the book? "As a woman in the workplace, you really have to have a thick skin." CNBC interviews and tweeps tweet. Read on.
- Losse squawked with CNBC today in an exclusive interview discussing her early days alongside Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg.
- Go inside the insider's mind here:
Go inside Facebook's 'frat house' mentality from the early days with 1 of only 2 female employees at the time. CLIP: cnb.cx/Qc0Qnm- ..and the kicker:
- What's everyone thinking about this?
How did they make $100B sitting around watching highlander @CNBC Facebook's 'frat house' mentality from the early days. cnb.cx/Qc0Qnm
Can she stop saying UM? Terrible! Katherine Losse's THE BOY KINGS out today and coming up on @cnbcsquawkst #Facebook @simonschuster- Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's newly elected first female board member, thinks that women can thrive in workplace environments and have it all, like she and Losse both have. Losse partially agrees, saying that the company has evolved over the 5 years she's worked there but still has a ways to go. The debate over women in the workplace lives on-- read the Atlantic's full story, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All."
Why Women Still Can't Have It AllIt's time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top pro...- Losse smirks upon being told her book is one of the first insider accounts to be published about life inside Facebook. She also thinks that Mark Zuckerberg will find the book "interesting".
While Losse may be bitter about some of her experiences working at Facebook, she says she has no bitterness about how the IPO went out.
Zuckerberg on the other hand? - Questionable.
- Be sure to check out "The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network" in stores (real and virtual) today.
