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Ask HN: Why does Facebook require 2 admins to add a Company, even if sole prop.?

by egb on 12/9/14, 6:10 PM with 3 comments

I'm trying to setup Facebook Audience Network for my iOS apps, and Facebook wants me to register a new company entity. After choosing a company type of "Individual (Sole Proprietor)", the 4th tab in their form asks for Admins, plural.

They won't let me make a company unless I have at least two admin users attached to it?! I tried a few support cases to get past this, but they say it's for "data security purposes". Um. There's just me. I don't want to make a fake user here...

Does anybody know why facebook would insist on this?

  • by MichaelCrawford on 12/9/14, 6:25 PM

    If you absolutely cannot get around it, perhaps it would work if you made me an Admin.

    I'm a sole proprietor too. I don't yet have a Facebook Company page, but I do plan to make one soon. Then I'll face the same problem, so we can be Admins for each other.

  • by _RPM on 12/9/14, 7:30 PM

    I have a company page, and I did not run into that issue. Is this something new? I made a company page last year.