Wednesday 10 April 2019

I invested in Facebook. By 2016, I couldn’t stay silent. | Roger McNamee


Why an early Facebook investor is now Facebook's biggest critic. - Investor Roger McNamee joined Facebook as an early investor when the company was just two years old. - In this video, he explains why he went from Facebook supporter to public critic, and why he came to write the book "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe". - The next billion dollars Facebook makes means nothing if it doesn't reform its practices, says McNamee. Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2's Bono as a co-founder. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is the author Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe (https://goo.gl/re2n9H) Read more at BigThink.com: http://bit.ly/2VDlioM Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink

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