Lemkin: Mark Zuckerberg is investing heavily in AI out of spite
Jason Lemkin · Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jan 8, 2026 · at 34:41
SaaS investor Jason Lemkin explains why tech founders like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg are aggressively shifting corporate culture and making massive AI investments post-2021.
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“It's CO spite about how they were forced to run companies in 20, 21. I think there's versions and I'm a big Sheryl Sandberg fan, but I think Zuck is spiteful. He was forced to run The company in a, in, in a certain way. I know a lot, I mean, Owen from Intercom, Finn has talked about this a lot, that he's spiteful, that he was, the company was forced to be run away, and they, they're just effing pissed that they wasted years in a kumbaya work at Homeland, and they're not wasting time, and Zuck's getting, Zuck may burn every last penny he has, but some of it's out of spite that they got this far behind. Like, my, these guys just fracked around With pictures on Instagram and trying to get reels going when the world passes by and they're pissed. These CEOs, I think a lot of these CEOs are pissed. I think Zuck's pissed.”
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