1. Mark Zuckerberg
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=4 (IDs 1-3 may have been associated with Zuckerberg but the profile pages no longer exist)
How he knew about Facebook: Zuckerberg founded Facebook
2. Chris Hughes
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=5
How he knew about Facebook: Hughes cofounded Facebook and was college roommates with Zuckerber
3. Dustin Moskovitz
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=6
How he knew about Facebook: Moskovitz cofounded Facebook and was college roommates with Zuckerberg.
4. Arie Hasit
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=7
How he knew about Facebook: Hasit was the first non-founder to sign up for Facebook. He was friends with early members David Hammer and Colin Jackson. Hammer knew Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes directly so its likely all three were friends.
5. Marcel Georgés Laverdet II
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=10 (IDs 8 and 9 do not exist)
How he knew about Facebook: *While Laverdet has one of the earliest IDs, it’s not certain that he was one of the first 20 to sign up for the site. Some engineers who worked at Facebook saw some early IDs were open and snagged them for themselves.
Since Laverdet didn’t go to Harvard, that’s presumably what happened here. Laverdet is, however, friends with early Facebookers Chris Putnam, Soleio Cuervo, Kang-Xing Jin, Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg, and his buddies Adam D’Angelo and Aaron Sittig.
Putnam and Marcel both got jobs at Facebook by creating hacks and pranks on the social site. These hacks caught the attention of cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who contacted Putnam. The two kept in touch and when Putnam moved to Silicon Valley, Moskovitz offered him an interview at Facebook. When Putnam was hired, he encouraged Marcel to join the company too.
6. Soleio Cuervo
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=11
How he knew about Facebook: Cuervo was friends with early Facebook members Kang-Xing Jin (16) and Marcel George Laverdet (5).
He later worked at Facebook and was responsible for the “Like” Button.
7. Chris Putnam
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=13 (ID 12 does not exist)
How he knew about Facebook: *While Putnam has one of the earliest IDs, it’s not certain that he was one of the first 20 to sign up for the site. Some engineers who worked at Facebook saw some early IDs were open and snagged them for themselves. Since Putnam didn’t go to Harvard, that’s presumably what happened here.
Putnam was, however, friends with early Facebookers Kang-Xing Jin and Marcel George Laverdet. Putnam and Marcel both got jobs at Facebook by creating hacks and pranks on the social site. These hacks caught the attention of cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who contacted Putnam. The two kept in touch and when Putnam moved to Silicon Valley, Moskovitz offered him an interview at Facebook.
8. Andrew McCollum
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=26 (IDs 14-25 do not exist)
How he knew about Facebook: McCollum was a Harvard student who was in Mark Zuckerberg’s CS161: Operating Systems class. He was also friends with early Facebook member David Hammer.
Zuckerberg asked McCollum to design Facebook’s first logo.
9. Colin Kelly
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=27
How he knew about Facebook: Kelly was a Harvard student who was friends with David Hammer and Colin Jackson. Both knew many early Facebookers and it’s likely all of them were acquaintances.
10. Mark Kaganovich
Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com/ /profile.php?id=28
How he knew about Facebook: Kaganovich was a Harvard student who was also friends with early Facebooker David Hammer. Although Hammer joined Facebook after Kaganovich, Hammer knew at least 7 of the earliest Facebook members, and it’s likely Kaganovich was acquaintances with many of them too.
