Dads, "Love" Screwed Would-Be Facebook Shareholders Out Of Millions, Billions
For every Facebook millionaire, there is someone who missed out. Ali Fedotowsky gave it up for love. She left her job in Facebook's ad-sales department in 2010 to star in her own reality TV show, "The Bachelorette." Ms. Fedotowsky left behind her unvested, restricted Facebook stock units, says her spokeswoman, who says Ms. Fedotowsky isn't available to comment. In an interview at the time with the Associated Press, Ms. Fedotowsky said "I decided I wanted to do what's best for me, and that's putting love first." She apparently didn't strike gold in love, either: Last fall, she publicly split with Roberto Martinez, the fiance she met through "The Bachelorette." Joe Green has his dad to blame. He was a college friend of Mr. Zuckerberg's, and helped him create "Facemash," the website for rating attractiveness of Harvard students that raised the ire of university officials. Later, Mr. Zuckerberg asked Mr. Green to help run his new venture, Facebook. But Mr. Green, on the advice of his father not to join any more "Zuckerberg projects," turned him down, according to "The Facebook Effect," a book about the company's early days by David Kirkpatrick. The elder Mr. Green did not respond to requests for comment. The book says he calls turning down Mr. Zuckerberg his "billion-dollar mistake." [WSJ]
