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

Harvard Business Review

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. At Akamai, in the early afternoon, we left our desks and met in a conference room to watch. The conference room filled. For the employees, the actual day of "going public" is very strange.

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