Alexandr (Alex) Wang
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So basically, early on, it's about who you get investment from.
And I was coding every day.
And then I got...
We got Y Combinator to invest in us.
And then we got this investment firm called Excel, which was one of the early investors into Facebook to invest.
And so we got some good investors and then they helped me build the team, like find people to hire.
I also hired, you know, what actually happened is I mostly hired people I knew from school.
So like- Because you could trust them?
I think more that they could trust me.
Cause I think if it like at the time, if I went to like a, a 25 year old engineer in San Francisco and I was like, Hey, we should, we should work together.
I had no credibility.
Like, um, I remember I waste, I like, I would get coffee with these people and I would say like, yeah, this is what we're working on.
It's super cool.
You should join us.
And then they would all just be like, okay.