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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. Our co-founder and CTO, Danny Lewin, had suddenly turned from a struggling graduate student to a staggeringly wealthy man. I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom.

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