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• mike - Aug 20 2008 | facebook, google, legal, employment

  Ling's mistake - taking the option to "quit" and save face rather than be "fired". Getting fired you have the option to sue the company for wrongful termination and seek damages. If you quit - it's all over. Given the short duration before a major stock award that was due him, it seems to me he would have a case that Facebook a) had no compelling reason to fire him and b) was acting in bad faith with respect to his original employment offer.

  Quoted: Ling got a new job at YouTube and a fat signing bonus, but no Facebook shares, some of which he probably deserved for his work on the platform.
• roberthd - Aug 19 2008 | facebook, social, web

  One explanation of the Facebook exec departures.

  Quoted: Here's one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That's the joking question--Was global warming Sandberg's fault too?--that was asked at a staff meeting at the social networking start-up last Friday afternoon, after the news of Ling's departure, on the heels of some other previous employee exits, suddenly morphed into a series of increasingly vituperative posts on the Valleywag tech gossip site that all centered on what blogger Owen Thomas called Sandberg's "reign of terror" at Facebook. The truth of the situation, though, is actually a lot more interesting.

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