Important Facebook partners (Apple, Amazon, Zynga, etc.) had permanent liaison staff assigned to them, almost like how the US State Department appoints ambassadors to foreign nations. Their role in life was not only representing Facebook’s views to (often) antagonistic outside powers, but also stumping for an outside company’s interests to an often oblivious Facebook. They also helped the other company navigate Facebook’s Byzantine internal politics to achieve some mutually beneficial goal. These ambassadors got to know their foreign powers very well, some even going a bit native (as diplomats
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