
His rejected hidden-camera-show pitch with Simon Rich still would not fly today. Jost was a year above Zuck and was Facebook friends with him, “back when that actually kind of meant something,” but initially thought Facebook was “a gigantic waste of time.” You might have guessed from the Winklevii connection that Jost was at Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg. He was “probably one of the first hundred people to join” Facebook. Jost guesses that they probably don’t remember him, because he was eventually moved to the lightweight team, and adds that “by the end of freshman year, I stopped rowing crew but made the interesting decision to continue eating five thousand calories a day.”

Jost rowed crew at Harvard with the Winklevoss twins, as in the double Armie Hammers from The Social Network.
