Keep in mind, this is also a great time to leave FB, there is a talent crunch in the tech world and sometimes the easiest way to advance your career is to go to another company. If your goal is to be a CEO, you will never get there by staying at FB.

Remember when "Executives" were C-Level or at least SVPs?

I'm not saying anything about these particular folks, just noting that the tech press tends to overuse the term executive.

As expected. Many people have and will leave Facebook. They came to cash-out thats what they did after the IPO. And now they are off to new ventures.

Same has happend and will happen to all big hits who go IPO. You will lose a lot of talent. Maybe this was one of the reasons they pushed out the IPO date so many times.

Golden Handcuffs are good sometimes.

Whomever took the google deals to stay at google must be so happy with their choice given the poor performance of FB.

Are these the same sort of people that quit their other companies a year before the IPO for Facebook stock?

I think that it is inevitable execs and talented developers will leave an organization at some point because there is only so much value you can get by sticking around indefinitely. The issue here is the timing of when they are leaving. You can't ignore the signals that Zuckerberg is in way over his head. He did a great job getting the company to this point but perhaps the next major departure/reassignment is his. It is not unprecedented to have the board of a public company replace the founder with a more experience CEO and that is what it seems like is needed in this case.

I wonder what a "mobile marketing manager" for Facebook does, seeing as how they don't have any mobile advertising.

99% of mobile downloads are from people searching their respective app stores for "Facebook" and clicking download.

Easiest job ever?

It's a boon of new money and fresh funded interests to the community. Better for everyone but I would not have gone public. (limited actual knowledge of real world pressures.. but still. They were not in control and give up more.

It is not your thing if it's everyone's thing and when everyone is bored of their thing. Well...

It's relevant that they can sell their shares after they leave, but if they continue working at FB they have to wait a few more weeks to months for the lock-up period to expire. Maybe they're scared about the stock and want to prevent further losses.

Good. Less management, more engineers. Facebook is profitable, and Zuckerberg has 56% voting stake in the company, so screw everyone else. I say let Mark do whatever he and his engineering team want to do, and don't bow down to people who would rather make a quick buck than build a great company.