Sex, beer, and coding: inside Facebook’s wild early days

PLUS: What Trump's Supreme Court nominee means for tech, a time-lapsed glacier collapse, and Microsoft's bet on tiny computers [View this email in your browser]( [logo]( [[WIRED Magazine]7.10.18]( In a story he tells to [Adam Fisher]( former WIRED senior editor and author of the book [Valley of Genius, The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley]( Mark Zuckerberg describes the early process of Facebook hiring as "hiring people by, like, bringing them into your house and letting them chill with you for a while and party with you and smoke with you." Today, we know Facebook and Zuckerberg as billion-dollar entities that influence daily life on a global scale. But it wasn't long ago that early staffers were clearing beer cans just to open the door. "The whole enterprise began as something of a lark, it was an un-corporation, an excuse for a summer of beer pong and code sprints," Fisher writes. "Indeed, Zuckerberg’s first business cards read, 'I’m CEO … bitch.'” Zuckerberg himself started "Dominate" chants in meetings with employees. They tore up a $1.2 billion offer from Yahoo. They commissioned X-rated office murals. As one of Facebook's first employees told Fisher, "How much was the direction of the internet influenced by the perspective of 19-, 20-, 21-year-old well-off white boys?" That’s a real question that sociologists will be studying forever. We know one thing, though. [They did, in fact, change the world](. Also: What Trump's Supreme Court nominee [means for tech]( a [time-lapse glacier collapse]( and Microsoft's [bet on tiny computers](. National Affairs Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court Could Spell Trouble for Tech By Issie Lapowsky Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is likely to rankle tech leaders who oppose his perspective on issues related to privacy and net neutrality. Can't Look Away A Time-Lapsed Glacier Collapse Is the Saddest Science Lesson By Robbie Gonzalez Time-lapse footage of a calving Glacier in Greenland could help researchers anticipate catastrophic sea-level rise. First Look Surface Go Is Microsoft’s Big Bet on a Tiny-Computer Future By Lauren Goode The latest Surface is Microsoft's smallest—and least expensive. Domination! Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days By Adam Fisher When the young Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto in 2004, he and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today. [WIRED Magazine Subscription] Get Wired Unlimited access to an ad-free WIRED.com + a free YubiKey. Subscribe now Photo of the Week Taking to the Sky to End Open-Water Salmon Farms By Ahalya Srikant A Canadian nonprofit alliance is trying to save a staple fish supply—via drone photography. Heavy Lifters Bulgaria's First New Plane in Decades Is a Freakishly Strong Drone By Eric Adams Brothers Svilen and Konstantin Rangelov are working on a drone they say will someday haul 800 pounds up to 1,550 miles. Robotics Why Did the Human Cross the Road? To Confuse the Self-Driving Car By Matt Simon Human drivers struggle to figure out something as simple as whether someone will cross the road. Just imagine how robocars feel. Cooking Tech Brava Hopes to Heat Up the 'Smart Kitchen' With a $995 Oven By Lauren Goode Is Brava’s idea of the oven of the future just right or overdone? contagions A ‘Cancer Cure’ Video Skewered Bad Science—and Went Viral Itself By Brian Barrett "This NATURAL TRICK can CURE YOUR CANCER" isn't at all what it looks like. [WIRED Magazine]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, [wired@newsletters.wired.com]( to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2018. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.