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The free tickets for the Girl Geek dinner at Facebook were gone within four minutes after an email was sent out to the group’s list of 2,000 recipients. This was the second Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner to take place at Facebook, and to its credit, the company stuck to the plan even after its tumultuous week in the stock market and the press.The timing “was just coincidence,” said Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner organizer Angie Chang, who is also a co-founder of Women 2.0. “The women at Facebook had set the date for the dinner months ago.” (The company’s No.

2 executive, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, sent a video greeting to the group: “I am proud to be a geek. I have been a geek my entire life,” she said.)During the panel discussion and through glimpses of a small part of the campus, the company’s mantra remained in full force. When the event broke up at 8:30 p.m. Or so, there were some employees waiting for shuttles or biking away from campus, but others were still glued to their screens in one large open-area office.One attendee in the Girl Geek Dinner audience, Jessica Williams, asked the panel of women Facebook executives and engineers how they are dealing with the barrage of media attention the company has been getting.“Stay focused and keep shipping,” said Cipora Herman, treasurer and vice president of investor relations. “We are not focused on headlines.”Yet the headlines must be hard to avoid, as the most-anticipated tech IPO has become one of the most controversial, given technical glitches and with lawsuits flying over allegations of preferential treatment to large institutional investors. Cuban on Facebook, IPO damageLest anyone think that everyone at the company is an emotionless robot, when an attendee asked the panelists if they have ever cried at work, Herman, who was one of the key leaders working on Facebook’s $16 billion IPO, replied: “I did today.”Herman said a colleague asked her in a private meeting how she was feeling.

“It wasn’t the first time I cried at work,” she continued, adding that she is one of those people who cries at the end of movies she takes her children to see.So although Zuckerberg’s complete focus on Facebook, the world’s largest social network, has filtered down from top executives to the engineers and developers, perhaps there are some elements of the hacker culture which may not belong in a public company. One has to wonder if Facebook’s ways of thinking also led it to “test the boundaries” in the IPO process.Indeed, since its early founding in Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard University, Zuckerberg and company have tested various boundaries, from the litigation over Facebook’s ownership to the privacy limits of the ever-growing user base.There are some honorable values in Facebook’s so-called “Hacker Way,” the name for its culture and management style. One of those good ideas is that “the best idea and implementation should always win — not the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person who manages the most people,” as Zuckerberg wrote in the IPO prospectus.Another idea that slower-moving tech companies should pay attention to is “instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works.” Zuckerberg said. “There’s a hacker mantra that you’ll hear a lot around Facebook offices: ‘Code wins arguments.’”Nevertheless, it’s worth asking if the company should consider re-evaluating how it “tests boundaries” outside of product development, or at least in matters relating to users and investors.

Therese Poletti chronicles the machinations of the technology industry for MarketWatch in the Tech Tales column. Before joining MarketWatch, Poletti covered some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News. Previously, she spent over a decade at Reuters, covering a range of beats, from spot news and Wall Street to biotech and technology. Poletti is also the author of 'Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger,' published by Princeton Architectural Press. Hotel dusk room 215 cheats.