Matt Jacobson, Facebook Head of Market Development
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Matt Jacobson, Head of Market Development at Facebook.
In this role, he focuses on strategic partnerships that connect people to some of the world's most recognized brands.
Facebook may be one of the world’s largest companies today, but it wasn’t when Matt joined as employee number 8 over 13 years ago.
He took a leap of faith at the time – he believed in their mission and their founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and began working for no salary, only equity.
You could say that bet paid off.
What gave Matt the confidence to join Facebook?
His intellectual curiosity has been a driving force for him for since he was young.
In this conversation, we discuss how that intellectual curiosity has allowed him to stay ahead of the curve, take risks and opened up new opportunities.
Matt understands, values, and invests deeply in relationships so it’s no surprise that his philosophy is: “To be the best part of another person’s day.”
What a cool thought.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been it was 13 years for me so I was an early you know one of the first 10 |
| 0:06.6 | employees there and and now we're a we've got a lot of employees but the maintaining |
| 0:11.4 | that that cultural DNA has been really important to us. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:28.0 | And by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of |
| 0:33.6 | compete to create and my partner in that business is head coach Pete Carroll for |
| 0:37.9 | the Seattle Seahawks and the business is based on the insights and the practices that we've come to learn |
| 0:44.3 | to help people who want to be their best, how to condition and train their mind to do |
| 0:49.2 | just that. Now the conversations in this podcast, the whole idea behind it is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:57.0 | We want to better understand what they're searching for, how they organize their life, both internally and externally. And we want to understand the mental skills |
| 1:05.4 | that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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