Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, threatening to chop off heads with a samurai sword? That's what Noah Kagan, a former employee of the company, is saying. He wrote a book called "How I Lost 170 million dollars" during his time at Facebook as 'Employee #30.'
In his book, Kagan explained that he was fired back in 2006, and if things had gone differently, he would have gotten a 0.1 percent share in Facebook, which would have netted him a massive $170 million. It's easy to see why he's writing this book and saying these things about Zuckerberg.
He also pointed out that at the time, Zuckerberg was only 23 years old, and because of that his management style was quite immature. In addition, Kagan said that Zuckerberg threw water over the computer of an engineer and screamed at him because he hated his work and wanted him to redo it.
Due to these actions, it is understandable why an employee wouldn't be happy. Some bosses do all manner of things when they are not pleased, and we don't expect the likes of Zuckerberg or the duo at Google to be any different. These are just merely human emotions taking over, especially since Facebook is so important to ole Zuck.
Still, threatening to behead employees is likely going too far. We doubt he means it, but we also doubt it is good for motivation. Furthermore, if Mark Zuckerberg really did throw water over an engineer's computer for not doing his job properly, then that engineer should have been compensated.
At the end of the day, if this story is true, we should take into account that Zuckerberg was only just a young man with little to no experience in the field of running his own company. Chances are he watched too much TV where bosses treat employees in some crazy manner and got good results out of it.
Right now, we'd like to think that Mark Zuckerberg has changed, because sensibility and wisdom should increase with age. Facebook is now the largest social network on the planet and competition is still, so while he might have changed how he deals with underperformance, a little bit of that inner demon from his young years is likely still hovering around.
