Former Employee Explains Why He Was Fired From Facebook
Getting fired sucks. Now imagine how it would feel to get canned
from Facebook, only to watch it become a social phenomenon and
the world's largest social network.  Noah Kagan has lived
through that experience. On Saturday, the AppSumo founder
decided to write about his "$100 million dollar lesson" learned,
detailing why he was terminated six years ago.  Kagan joined
Facebook as a product manager in November 2005, and was fired
eight months later in June 2006. When he left, the social
network was still limited to high school and university
students. Facebook started accepting anyone with a valid email
address in September 2006.  He described the reasons for his
dismissal like this: He was selfish, accidentally leaked company
secrets to TechCrunch and didn't address his weaknesses as a
product manager. "I wasn’t great at planning or product
management at this time. Fix them or move to another position,"
Kagan wrote.  The serial entrepreneur worked excep