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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. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO. The conference room filled.

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