Babayigit worked only two hours a day late in his Facebook career
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Akin Babayigit, co-founder and COO of Tripledot Studios, discusses his previous experience as an employee at Facebook before starting his own company.
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“When I was working two hours a day towards the tail end of my career at Facebook. By all measures, it was supposed to be super comfortable and, you know, whatever. I was cruising, right? I was Barely doing any work at all.”
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