Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook | Facebook

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I'm facing an anniversary soon: I will have worked at Facebook for four years. I was originally drawn to the company for the opportunity to help build a technology that enables people to model their social network and interact with it online. Equally as important, it was my first opportunity to work alongside my best friend of nearly two decades. Together, we threw ourselves into the task of building something we both believed in, working 18 hours a day, seven days a week with a small team of 40 people at the time.

About six weeks after we both started, my best friend was killed in a tragic bicycling accident. It was a big blow to me personally, but it also was difficult for everyone at Facebook. We were a small, tight-knit community, and any single tragedy had a great effect on all of us. I can recall a company-wide meeting a few days after his death, where I spoke about what my ...

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