From Facebook To Entrepreneurship

A recent data released from Careerify (& shared by Forbes) says, 10% of former Facebook employees founded their own companies and many of them enjoyed an immense flow of funding (and buzz).

Did “ex-facebook” tag on their founder’s CV help them to achieve this?

Must be an add-on at least?

Here is a quick list of those entrepreneurs, who could take a next step forward after leaving Facebook and achieved some milestones.

1. Sharethrough - http://www.sharethrough.com/

Founder - Dan Greenberg

Funding - $11 million

Industry - Marketing & Advertising

2. Radius Intelligence - http://radiusintel.com/

Founder - Darian Shirazi

Funding - $12.4 million

Industry - IT & Services

3. Okta - http://www.okta.com/

Founder - Todd McKinnon

Funding - $52.3 Million

Industry - Computer Software

4. Asana - http://www.asana.com/

# of ex-FBers - 10

Founders - Dustin Moskovitz, Justin Rosenstein

Industry - Internet

5. Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/

# of ex-FBers - 23

Founder - Evan Sharp

Industry - Internet

6. Path - https://path.com/

# of ex-FBers - 4

Founder - Dave Morin

Industry - Internet

7. MemSQL - http://www.memsql.com/

Founder - Eric Frenkiel

Funding - $5.1 million

Industry - Computer Software

8. Airtime - https://www.airtime.com/

Founder - Sean Parker

Funding - $33.5 million

Industry - Internet

9. Coveroo - http://www.coveroo.com/

Founder - Karl Jacob

Funding - $3.8 million

Industry - Internet          

Few questions came in my mind is:

• Does it really matter to be a part of a big platform before moving into entrepreneurship?
• Does your job help you to develop entrepreneurship skills?
• How much would that affect to your success?

I believe, maybe! But again it's all about your commitment with your venture and your self-justification with your job.