From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Oren Etzioni
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:25 AM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-all-grads – Email Alias; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: Fwd: Facebook to open Seattle office
Subject: Facebook to open Seattle office
In case you hadn’t already heard the news:
There I was thinking I was such a trendsetter by moving to Seattle. But apparently other people had the same idea, because Facebook is opening an office up here, too. A handful of engineers, led by Ari Steinberg, are making the move up here to open an engineering office, says Facebook. They are looking for office space now and expect to have 30 engineers here within a year.
Also of note – Seattle-based Hadi Partovi, the cofounder of iLike and a former MySpace executive, is joining Facebook as an advisor and will help the office recruit new talent. I can imagine MySpace Seattle engineers will be working on their resumes this morning.
Two weeks ago Facebook announced the opening of an office in Austin focusing on sales and operations. Other than a small engineering team based in Tokyo this is Facebook’s first engineering office outside of their Palo Alto headquarters.
Elise Hebb
Madrona Venture Group