On Monday this week at SXSW I was waiting in line for BBQ at the IronWorks and someone said “you Robert Scoble?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m the guy who let you listen to my piano practice back in high school.” (He wrote a Web service that let me listen to his piano practicing, it was most cool. He lived in Atlanta at the time, I had just started working at Microsoft).
But the story gets better.
Turns out he’s now head of security at Facebook.
How did he get the job? He hacked into Facebook’s site. They hired him to fix the problems. Very unconventional. But smart. Lucky that Chris didn’t get arrested (he knows of other people who did the same thing to other companies who weren’t as lucky, so he doesn’t recommend it as a career path).
I knew Chris was gonna do something interesting by the time he was 21 (I first met him when he was 17). UPDATE: actually, I had never met him until Monday. I meant “met virtually” cause we had talked quite a bit back in 2003 via IM and other tools.
Crazy awesome! A guy from Google came to our school last week to recruit. He told us to break Google products to get hired.
Crazy awesome! A guy from Google came to our school last week to recruit. He told us to break Google products to get hired.
That’s awesome… I would kill to work at Facebook
That’s awesome… I would kill to work at Facebook
Yeah.. I need to keep my thoughts to myself I think; I wrote a follow up to this that is linked that makes lawyers probably really hate me!
Rex
Yeah.. I need to keep my thoughts to myself I think; I wrote a follow up to this that is linked that makes lawyers probably really hate me!
Rex
Well, hope I turn up in a post like this someday…
Well, hope I turn up in a post like this someday…
Hacking into a job, that must have been pretty exciting.
Hacking into a job, that must have been pretty exciting.
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