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FAcEBOOK
Randi Zuckerberg talks Facebook, family
and the future.
By Grace May Cobb
I
n sitting down to dinner with Randi
Zuckerberg I wasn’t sure what to expect.
About Randi I knew only two things; Firstly
she was the elder sister of the now infamous
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and
secondly that she had been integral in the
beginning and continued success of the
social network that has changed everything.
It’s fair to say I was blown away in meeting
Randi. Despite spending the last decade in
Silicon Valley surrounded by coders and
engineers Randi is every inch the modern
women in a floor length maxi dress, wanting
to know where I had bought the blazer I was
wearing and tell me all about her 18 month
old son, a far cry from Mark who’s private
life is relatively off limits and who recently
admitted to owning up to 20 crew-neck
shirts in the same grey colour. A bounding
mass of brunette curls, and a beaming smile
regardless of jetlag and unfamiliar surrounds.
Entrepreneurism, family, friends, Facebook,
Fame, politics nothing was off limits.
Randi graduated from Harvard University in
2003, starting out in marketing in New York
at a time where television campaigns were
popular and she was placed in the rather
less glamorous sector of internet marketing,
something she now describes as “a blessing
in disguise” at this time her brother Mark and
his friends were starting Facebook out of their
Harvard dorms, a project Randi would later
work on for over six years.
“These guys were so
creative, so passionate
about what they were
building, I completely
fell for it”
Facebook and the entrepreneurial atmosphere
it provided were enough to hook Randi upon
her visiting Silicon Valley. “These guys were so
creative, so passionate about what they were
building, I completely fell for it” says Randi.