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0:00Intro: The 57th hire at The Facebook and Tom's extraordinary lifeAl Elliott: You're the 57th person hired at a little-known startup. The company is a small startup called The Facebook. You might have heard of it. You're 50 years old. Everyone else is 20. The founder's 19 years old. AnEP 281 · 5 Mar 2026·intro· 0:00–1:255:48The interview with a 19-year-old Mark ZuckerbergAl Elliott: I want to just go back to that. So you got the call from a recruiter about something which at that point, it wouldn't be the Facebook, it'd be Facebook, wouldn't it? Tom LeNoble: I think it was still the FaceEP 281 · 5 Mar 2026·interview· 5:48–9:039:03What Tom was actually hired to doAl Elliott: So what were you doing? What were you employed to actually do? Tom LeNoble: We would, at the time, it was fascinating because we had this system that was sort of halfway useful. You know how it is at startup EP 281 · 5 Mar 2026·interview· 9:03–11:02

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