Mark Zuckerberg
58 statements across 6 episodes · 25 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2021 by David Rosenthal · said 338 times in 28 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Mark Zuckerberg, oldest first
Sep 22, 2021 positive
Aug 8, 2024 positive
Sep 18, 2024 bullish
Zuckerberg scaled AI and Reality Labs knowing investors would hate it
“Go double down on those things, and build out the AI infrastructure that we needed to, and scale up some of the Reality Lab stuff, and I knew that a lot of the investors would hate it, at least in the short term, before it's clearly the right thing to do.”
Sep 18, 2024
Zuckerberg: Facebook board tried to fire him after rejecting Yahoo's $1B offer
“In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars, and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it, and the board tried to fire me, and everyone, and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because they, I hadn'…”
Sep 18, 2024
Zuckerberg: Overstaffing projects strips employee agency and repels top talent
“I think it also is problematic to have more people working on something than you should have for the stage that it's at, because then the people who are working on it don't have the agency to actually, like, make the changes and do the things that they need to…”
Sep 18, 2024 negative
Zuckerberg: Companies lacking technical CEOs and boards are not tech companies
“You know, they, the CEO wasn't technical. The board of directors had no one technical on it. They had, like, one dude on the management team who was the head of engineering who was technical, and, like, everyone else wasn't. It's like, alright, if that's your …”
Sep 18, 2024 positive
Zuckerberg: Meta is not embarrassed to copy successful products from competitors
“We're not embarrassed about learning from things that other people, like, discovered that were good first, and then we build a better version of it, and I mean, I think that that's, You know, no one company is going to invent everything, right? I think if you …”
Sep 18, 2024 positive
Zuckerberg: Underestimating future suffering enables people to build ambitious things
“I think there are, like, a lot of people for whom, you know, if you knew how painful, ah, it would be along the way, you wouldn't get started. But then, you know, I think that that's one of the things that's good about human nature, is you can underestimate ho…”
Sep 18, 2024 neutral
Sep 18, 2024 bullish
Sep 18, 2024 neutral
Zuckerberg: Meta's shipping culture is the opposite of Apple's polished approach
“I think in a lot of ways we're like the opposite of Apple, and clearly their stuff has worked really well too, right? But I mean, they take this approach, it's like, we're gonna take a, like, a long time, we're gonna polish it, we're gonna put it out and maybe…”
Sep 18, 2024 negative
Zuckerberg: Accepting blame during political crises only invites more attacks
“If you take responsibility for things, because you think it's a corporate crisis, not a political crisis and your view is like, okay, I'm, like, I'm gonna take responsibility for all this stuff. Like, and people are basically, like, blaming social media and th…”
Sep 18, 2024 neutral
Zuckerberg: Meta's 2016 political mistake will take another 10 years to resolve
“I think that the political miscalculation was a 20 year mistake. And so it started in 2016... And I think it's going to take another 10 years or so for us to kind of fully work through that cycle before our brand and all of that is back to kind of the place th…”
Sep 30, 2024 neutral
Zuckerberg: Meta's shipping philosophy is the opposite of Apple's long-cycle polish
“I think in a lot of ways we're like the opposite of Apple, and clearly their stuff has worked really well too, right? But I mean, they take this approach, it's like, we're gonna take a, like, a long time, we're gonna polish it, we're gonna put it out and maybe…”
Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Zuckerberg: Meta deliberately stacks its management team with technical leaders
“I think one of the things that I've always been pretty careful about is I actually, like, want, like, the, a lot of the people on our management team, it's like, You know, split. It's mostly people running either of these big product groups who come up through…”
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Ek: Zuckerberg runs productive product review meetings with 15 to 20 people
“Mark, the average meeting he has is like 15 to 20 people in the room and how you make you know, a product review or discussion productive with 15 and 20 people still get people to be heard. Like he's very, very good at that stuff.”
Sep 30, 2024
Zuckerberg: Strategy is harder when winning than when losing
“I think strategically, a lot of the time, it's somewhat harder to know what to do when you're winning. Like, when stuff is going well, it's like, what is the next move to, like, go from winning to winning more? But when you're losing, it's usually pretty clear…”
Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024 neutral
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Sep 30, 2024 bullish
Zuckerberg: If Meta learns and iterates faster than competitors, it will win
“So like I define our strategies. We can learn faster than every other company. We're going to win. We're going to build a better product than everyone else because we're going to get it out first or early. We're going to have a good feedback loop. We're gonna …”
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Daniel Ek: Mark Zuckerberg is the best learner I have ever seen
“Specifically from him you know, he's the, probably the best learner I've ever seen. You know, you can have a conversation with him about a topic, he may not know very much about it, and then the next time, he would know more than, I would say, most experts abo…”
Sep 30, 2024 negative
Zuckerberg: Overstaffing projects destroys employee agency and repels top talent
“It also is problematic to have more people working on something than you should have for the stage that it's at, because then the people who are working on it don't have the agency to actually, like, make the changes and do the things that they need to, Which …”
Sep 30, 2024 negative
Sep 30, 2024 bullish
Sep 30, 2024 bullish
Zuckerberg: Goal for next 10-15 years is building winning open platforms
“Part of my goal for the next 1015 years, the next generation of platforms, is to build the next generation of open platforms and have the open platforms win. And I think that that's going to lead to a much more vibrant tech industry.”
Sep 30, 2024 bullish
Zuckerberg: Meta scaled AI and Reality Labs knowing investors would hate it
“What we knew was gonna be really painful, you know, to go double down on those things, and build out the AI infrastructure that we needed to, and scale up some of the Reality Lab stuff. And I knew that a lot of the investors would hate it. At least in the shor…”
Sep 30, 2024 negative
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Zuckerberg: Prioritizing praise over rapid shipping wastes critical product learning time
“I do just think that, like, you want to really have a culture that values shipping and getting things out and getting feedback more than needing always to get great positive accolades from people when you put stuff out. Because I think, like, if you want to wa…”
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Zuckerberg: Meta is unashamed to adopt and improve competitors' innovations
“We're not embarrassed about learning from things that other people, like, discovered that were good first, and then we build a better version of it, and I mean, I think that that's, You know, no one company is going to invent everything, right? I think if you …”
Sep 30, 2024 negative
Zuckerberg: Apple is Meta's primary competitor in ideological open-vs-closed race
“I expect them to be our primary competitor, and I think it will not be Just a product competition. I think it's like a, in some ways, very deeply values driven and ideological competition around what the future of the tech industry should be”
Sep 30, 2024
Zuckerberg: Facebook board tried firing him over $1B Yahoo offer
“In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars, and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it, and the board tried to fire me, and everyone, and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because they, I hadn'…”
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Sandberg Bet on Mobile Because Zuckerberg's Control Prevented His Firing
“And when they sort of arrived at this plan of, we are going to forego a lot of desktop revenue to basically bet it all on figuring out mobile revenue, she said, well, Mark, nobody can fire you, and only you can fire me, so if you're in, I'm in.”
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Oct 28, 2024
Rosenthal: Yann LeCun required open source and NYU professorship to join Meta
“And Jan says like, well, I'm flattered that you would want me to come work here. That's interesting. But like, I live in New York. I teach at NYU. I don't want to leave. I don't want to quit teaching at NYU. And I'm pretty darn committed to open source and pub…”
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 neutral
Oct 28, 2024
Rosenthal: Mark Zuckerberg built childhood chat tool 'ZuckNet' for family and dental office
“Including a family chat tool for all the networked computers in the house, and also his dad's dentistry office is attached to the house. So he builds this network called ZuckNet, which is family chat between all the computers.”
Oct 28, 2024 bullish
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Zuckerberg Negotiated Facebook's $1B Instagram Acquisition Over a Single Weekend
“Not to mention, on top of it all, we're not gonna go into it here because we had a whole episode on Facebook and Instagram, but this was done over two days, over the course of a weekend. Mark didn't do a whole lot of socializing this before pulling the trigger…”
Oct 28, 2024 neutral
Facemash engagement crashed Kirkland House servers and triggered Harvard IT shutdown
“Facemash takes that to such a whole nother level that it actually melts down the servers in Kirkland House, and the IT department at Harvard has to shut off internet within hours of it going live to all of Kirkland House, lest this, like, continue to spread vi…”
Oct 28, 2024
Zuckerberg Pitched Steve Jobs on Integrating Facebook's Platform Directly Into iOS
“The next year, in 2008, when the iPhone SDK was launching and people were building apps, Mark and Facebook actually go to Apple and meet with Steve, and they pitch Steve on exactly what you were just talking about, Ben. Like, hey, how about you let us bring ou…”
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Rosenthal: Mark Zuckerberg expanded Facebook to Columbia specifically to test head-to-head competition
“And he specifically chooses Columbia because, Ben, as you said, there was an existing competitor there. And he's like, I want to see how Facebook competes. And like, I want to know right away, can we displace it?”
Oct 28, 2024 neutral
Gilbert: Early Facebook prioritized raw intelligence over industry experience in hiring
“The other thing that was basically true is they were not really interested in recruiting industry veterans, especially on the technical side. And Mark says this in early talks, that he was just prioritizing raw intelligence over experience.”
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
Zuckerberg Rejected Yahoo Acquisition After Terry Semel Lowered $1B Offer
“So Mark actually agrees to the Yahoo deal. Billion dollars. It's gonna be all in stock. Yahoo's gonna buy the company. In the interim between when they shake hands on the deal and while the docs are being drafted, Yahoo announces their quarterly earnings, and …”
Oct 28, 2024
Rosenthal: Zuckerberg Built Facebook by Combining Small Projects, Not Planning Big Things
“So later, after thefacebook.com blew up, Mark told the Harvard Crimson in an interview, I don't really know what the next big thing is, because I don't spend my time making big things. I spend time making small things, and then when the time comes, I put them …”
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Meta Open-Sources AI to Commoditize Complements and Lower Long-Term Costs
“When you think about it, it's actually a form of operating leverage, where he's basically saying there's a big fixed cost I am willing to bear in order to bootstrap this ecosystem and commoditize all of these complements, commoditize all of these other closed …”
Oct 28, 2024 neutral
Gilbert: Zuckerberg's post-2016 leadership mirrors Gates staying through DOJ antitrust fallout
“Zuck, after all the 2016 election fallout, and the shift in public perception, and having to do all this testifying, Is like watching an alternate future for Microsoft where Bill Gates had decided to stay at the helm instead of leaving after the DOJ case.”
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Facebook Shifted From Product Innovator to Shameless Feature Copier
“For the first six or seven years of its life, Facebook was a change maker, defining what social networking was, and then after that, it became a change taker, and we'll talk about this when it happens, but like, again, the mental flexibility of Mark and the co…”
Oct 28, 2024 neutral
Rosenthal: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin split initial Facebook ownership 66/33
“Eduardo invests a thousand dollars in infrastructure for the site. Mark invests another thousand dollars, so together there's 2000 dollars of investment in the facebook.com, and the deal they strike is that Mark gets two-thirds of the company, and Eduardo gets…”