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Facebook turned its head at the start of this year when it announced that it was diving into the blockchain.
The social media giant has yet to specify what his blockchain plans are, but he is currently trying to hire cryptographic experts and build a team: a recruitment effort that the Cheddar news site has recently revealed to be more challenging than expected.
The irony is that many of the great players in the encrypted world have worked on Facebook. Dozens of former Facebook students have left the company in recent years to join the blockchain boom.
The engineering and managerial experience gained by working on an important technological product like the Facebook social network of 2 billion members – together with the many employees received in the IPO 2012 – left Facebook veterans well positioned to build a new Crypto crop and blockchain startup.
The former employees of Facebook – and other technology operators of established companies – will have to apply their skills not only to professionalize the sector but to convince opponents that the volatile market, which currently suffers from a sharp drop in cryptocurrency prices, is not only a lightning pan.
Business Insider spoke to people through the blockchain ecosystem to track down some of the major Facebook alumni who made the leap to work in the crypt, and asked what this change could mean for the industry.
So, in no particular order, here are fifteen former Facebook employees who now try their luck in the wild world of crypto and blockchain:
