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To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Harvard Business Review

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Because of the phenomenal technology, timing and team, the Akamai IPO became one of the most successful IPOs of that era.

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