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Then: Before Steve King was one of the first original 15 employees at Facebook, he worked at a small startup acquired by Monster.com. Once at Facebook he directed media sales and can be credited with landing the social utility its first big name advertisers like Panasonic and Microsoft before leaving the company in the summer of 2006.



Now: Mr. King recently left the VP of sales post at Boston-based LocaModa. He is the former CEO of DocuSign and regional sales director at Dotomi. He is now a general partner at Second & Fourth, a firm he founded alongside fellow Facebook alum PJ Solomon. It provides investing, advising and consulting services to pre-seed and early stage companies.



In response to a question on Quora, Mr. King said, “The first 20 employees of Facebook have been given the gift of financial freedom should they choose to exercise their vested stock options in exchange for liquidity.”



(Photo: Facebook)

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Then: Before Steve King was one of the first original 15 employees at Facebook, he worked at a small startup acquired by Monster.com. Once at Facebook he directed media sales and can be credited with landing the social utility its first big name advertisers like Panasonic and Microsoft before leaving the company in the summer of 2006.



Now: Mr. King recently left the VP of sales post at Boston-based LocaModa. He is the former CEO of DocuSign and regional sales director at Dotomi. He is now a general partner at Second & Fourth, a firm he founded alongside fellow Facebook alum PJ Solomon. It provides investing, advising and consulting services to pre-seed and early stage companies.



In response to a question on Quora, Mr. King said, “The first 20 employees of Facebook have been given the gift of financial freedom should they choose to exercise their vested stock options in exchange for liquidity.”



(Photo: Facebook)

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