Mark Zuckerberg

person on 42 shows · 453 statements across 290 episodes · said 4,735 times in 1,400 episodes since 2014

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The latest 60 statements about Mark Zuckerberg, every show

20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2031
Stebbings predicts Meta's stock price would rise if Mark Zuckerberg departed
“If Zuck expired, Meta's stock price would increase.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 5, 2026 ▶ 59:02 How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
20VC Opinion
Weitzman: Alex Karp inflates Palantir's P/E ratio while Zuckerberg depresses Meta's
“What Meta doesn't have is what Palantir has, which Palantir has the Alex Karp effect. Alex is really good at pumping up the PE ratio of the stock, and Zuck, I agree, is the opposite.”
Cliff Weitzman Sep 5, 2026 ▶ 59:25 How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
Kantrowitz: Meta Laying Off Workers to Fund AI Compute Is Unjustified
“I always find it a little bit rich when a ultra profitable publicly traded 1.5 trillion dollar company with massive margins is like, we need to find cost savings. I mean, I guess, like if you know, obviously it's important to perform for Wall Street, but I don…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 32:42 Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
IN DEPTH Disclosure
Parikh pushed Zuckerberg to prioritize engineering efficiency over pure product features
“You know, I remember talking to Mark and Mark was like, yeah, we can, you know, we have money, so we should just build features and we should put all the engineers working on product. And I said, cool, but I'm going to work on efficiency because I'm not going …”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:02:57 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
MAD Opinion
Greenblatt: Broad AI access does not prevent misaligned power-seeking takeovers
“Giving broad access to AIs does not solve the problem of the AIs having drives of their own that are highly misaligned and the AIs being power seeking in various ways, or the AI is trying to take over which could happen, you know, Via various routes.”
Ryan Greenblatt Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:02:28 AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late?
MAD Opinion
Mark Zuckerberg's open-source vision underestimates transformative superintelligence
“When Mark thinks about super intelligence, he's not really imagining anything very concrete. He just means like an AI that's like a really awesome assistant that is in your smart glasses or whatever. And like, I'm just like, that's not really like what I mean …”
Ryan Greenblatt Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:02:57 AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late?
Thompson: Meta would not lead in AI without Mark Zuckerberg
“In a world where Meta was run by anyone other than Mark Zuckerberg, they would not be on the leading edge.”
Ben Thompson Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 55:45 What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
Memon: Zuckerberg and Musk Have Privatized Society's Information Pathways
“Suddenly the information pathways are not public. The information pathways become private. So Zuckerberg, Elon, they start owning our information pathways. Now the conversation is not public anymore.”
Zain Memon Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 12:53 S2E14: The Stories That Control Us: Free Will, AI & The Future of Human Civilization
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Meta sued every startup attempting to index its social graph
“Zuckerberg, please explain how this concept is compatible with the fact that you have sued every startup, many of which I've invested in, that has ever tried to index or use the social graph at Instagram or Facebook.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 41:37 Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Freston: Viacom offered $1.5 million to buy Facebook in early days
“We offered to buy the Facebook for a million and a half dollars, which was a lot for us.”
Tom Freston Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 18:37 Broke and in debt at 33 — then he built MTV (co-founder Tom Freston)
BIGDEAL Insight
Godin: Zuckerberg uses likes and comments to extract free labor
“Because Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have a feedback loop of likes, and what people are saying about you in the comments, because if he can get you hooked on that, you will work for free, and his advertisers will have something to buy.”
Seth Godin Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 10:20 How to Solve Problems Better Than 99% of People | Seth Godin
TBPN Opinion
Hays: Mark Zuckerberg lacks real AI product vision or strategy
“Ultimately, it's a lot of words from someone who I don't believe has any real vision or strategy.”
Jordi Hays Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 16:35 Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim: Media Misconstrued Mark Zuckerberg's AI Remarks to Falsely Claim CapEx Cuts
“I think we saw earlier this month I think Reuters quoted, like Zuckerberg's about agentic AI. They took it out of context, and then every Media person was with the hot take that this Meta was seeing bad returns, and they're going to cut CapEx, and then we had …”
Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 1:54 RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim
a16z Opinion
Masad: Zuckerberg reshaped his media narrative through unmediated public posts
“Zuck changed his, the entire narrative around him by just being himself and actually talking directly to people.”
Amjad Masad Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 6:59 Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
TBPN Opinion
Hays: Meta's Smart Glasses Are a Bet to Take Cuts of Commerce
“The glasses are more of a new platform bet right now than AI. And I just think he wants to be in a world where you're wearing your very, very cheap pair, or maybe even free pair of glasses around. They act as your phone and your computer, and you can look at s…”
Jordi Hays Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 18:16 GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Zuckerberg Rejected Yahoo's $1 Billion Facebook Buyout in 10 Minutes
“When Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for a billion dollars in July, 2006, I thought we should at least consider it. But Mark Zuckerberg walked into the board meeting and announced, okay, guys, this is just a formality. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. We'…”
David Senra Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 1:36 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
Giffon: Tech leaders use private allocations to create a landed gentry
“We're sort of recreating the feudal system from first principles where there are the lords Elon Zuckerberg, Dario, Sam, and they're sort of, they can sort of make landed gentry by giving out allocations, because these allocations are sort of these, sort of lik…”
Jeremy Giffon Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 1:09:21 Everything in Capital Markets is Downstream of Algorithms · Invest Like The Best
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Build Prediction Market App 'Arena'
“Zuckerberg directed Meta to build a prediction markets app, which is a wild shift. The experimental app internally called Arena would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction ma…”
John Coogan Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 18:48 Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Mark Chen brought soup to researchers to counter Zuckerberg's talent poaching
“Oh, you know, it's absolutely a true story. And I have brought soup to our own researchers.”
Mark Chen Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 0:39 Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
Mark Zuckerberg's AI vision lacks the crispness of Facebook's original mission
“Look, and I say this as a huge, enormous fan of his and believer in him and, like, the whole thing. I just, it's not as crisp as make the world more open and connected.”
Sam Lessin Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 32:52 SpaceX Hit $2.5 Trillion. Now Watch What Elon Buys Next. · More or Less Podcast
BIGDEAL What-if
Jorgenson: Electric cars at scale would not exist without Elon Musk
“Social networks would have happened without Zuckerberg. Search engines would have happened without Larry and Sergey. Pick your thing. We would have had operating systems without Bill Gates. We would have computers without jobs. It's not clear that we would hav…”
Eric Jorgenson Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 15:51 How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Himel: Meta pivoted 200 employees to AI smart glasses in one weekend
“That was a Saturday, by Monday, we had pivoted 200 people on the team to be building AI for these glasses, and the rest is history.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 55:49 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Zuckerberg: Science has become the primary focus of CZI
“Now it is basically the primary and main thing that we're doing, and we've expanded the original San Francisco Biohub to a handful now at this point. There's New York, there's Chicago.”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 4:08 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
NO PRIORS Insight
Zuckerberg: Biological AI requires wet labs because internet data is insufficient
“You want to build a frontier AI lab, but you need to couple that with a frontier biology effort that can do the work of basically being able to understand and get the data that you need to actually be able to build these models, because unlike language models,…”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 4:42 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
NO PRIORS Insight
Zuckerberg: Biological simulation requires hierarchical modeling from proteins to systems
“I mean, the, but you need to be able to understand the protein interactions in order to be able to understand how cells work. So you can't just go straight to cells in a way without understanding the protein modeling. And then if you're trying to understand so…”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 10:45 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Zuckerberg: Biohub will not cure diseases directly but build tools for scientists
“And again, I mean, the theory isn't that we're going to cure the diseases. We're not. It's that we want to help accelerate the pace of progress for the whole scientific field.”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 19:43 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
NO PRIORS Opinion
Zuckerberg: A Centralized Superintelligence Will Not Solve Science
“Our vision is not that there's going to be like some central super intelligence that solves all of science.”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 39:36 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
NO PRIORS Insight
Zuckerberg: AI progress requires only a couple dozen researchers, not hundreds
“In order to make progress in AI, you don't need like many, many hundreds of AI researchers or thousands or anything like that. I think you can really make progress with you know, a very strong group of a dozen or a couple dozen people.”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 43:58 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Siegler: Zuckerberg Acknowledged Meta Could Launch Cloud Infrastructure For Outside Businesses
“Zuckerberg, even this week or this past week was in the news again saying, like, basically acknowledging that with all the capex spend, if they need to, they can roll out a cloud, right? They can roll out a cloud that other businesses can use.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 57:41 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Costolo: Meta's rolling layoffs are surprising given Zuckerberg's strategic sharpness
“What I would say specifically about Meta is Mark is extraordinarily sharp and a strategic thinker, and the thing that I've been surprised about is the little bit of the death by a thousand cuts on the layoffs.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 38:45 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zuckerberg: Meta's internal engineers will accelerate AI coding progress beyond rivals
“Having people internally build tools that, or solve tasks that that help teach the model how to code, We think is going to dramatically increase our model's coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousa…”
Mark Zuckerberg May 22, 2026 ▶ 38:42 SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Ries: Dario Amodei lacks dual-class founder control shares at Anthropic
“Dario does not have dual class shares the way that Mark Zuckerberg or Larry and Sergey had.”
Eric Ries May 10, 2026 ▶ 1:16:11 How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries
20VC Opinion
Cliff Weitzman: Mark Zuckerberg is the world's best acquirer
“Zuck also has proven that he is the number one acquirer in the world. Like, no one acquires as well as Meta.”
Cliff Weitzman May 9, 2026 ▶ 31:44 Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Meta's Dave Wehner: Mark Zuckerberg Is Even-Tempered and Never Lashes Out
“He said he's a pleasure to work for. I swear to God. He said he's even tempered. I'm not joking. This sounds like I'm brown nosing. He said he's even tempered. He's like, man, he's been a great boss. Like he's been, he never like is lashes out. He has always e…”
Sam Parr Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 46:52 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why
NEON SHOW Assertion Partly supported
Nair: Musk built an AI data center in 8 months, besting Zuckerberg
“What he did do is stand up an entire data center and, you know, work with NVIDIA and get all the chipsets necessary to go stand up something in eight months, which Mark Zuckerberg himself said that he thought it'll take three years.”
Sudheesh Nair Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 57:21 After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
Meta struggles to gain product traction organically without relying on external acquisitions
“They just, they don't have a good track record over the past decade plus of launching new things, obviously with the metaverse being, you know, the prime example, but several other projects, they had a crypto project DM and You know, they've had many, many oth…”
M.G. Siegler Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 55:25 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Demis Hassabis rejected higher Facebook offer because Mark Zuckerberg misunderstood AI's potential
“Facebook offered more money, but I wanted somebody who really understood why AI would be bigger than all those things. And then he sold to Google.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 1:02:03 More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kim: Mark Zuckerberg may waste $100 billion on frontier AI models
“I mean, reality labs, he made a waste of 70 to eighty billion dollars. He may waste a hundred billions of dollars on, on these Frontier AI models.”
Tae Kim Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 28:34 FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race
20VC Insight
Andreessen: Some top founders are born driven, without childhood trauma
“Some of the best founders in history have no trace of trauma in their background that I can tell. And I'll just give you two examples. You know, Zuckerberg is one who, you know, grew up in a classic upper middle class, you know, New Jersey household, very, you…”
Marc Andreessen Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 13:07 Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Andreessen: Mark Zuckerberg's lack of ego drives his rapid learning curve
“He's, like, listening and absorbing everything that people are saying around him, and he's going to be on a vertical learning curve like crazy, because he doesn't have the ego need to just, like, say things. He can just, like, absorb. And, of course, it turned…”
Marc Andreessen Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 1:14:47 Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI CEO agent for himself
“Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him do his job.”
Jordi Hays Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 25:44 SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Meta will pivot Reality Labs to AI world models
“I think they keep the metaverse alive and reality labs. And then slowly, quietly pivot to the whole world model space. And then suddenly it all comes back and Zuck was right the whole time as he figures out AI ad LLM based advertising and comes back with world…”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 46:48 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
DHH: Young people are smarter when it comes to liquid intelligence
“Well, it's not wrong. In a certain category of intelligence, this form of liquid intelligence, smart fast signups, firing stuff. Young people are smarter. Like, just like they run faster, right?”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 10:45 $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
20VC Opinion
Rajaram: Mark Zuckerberg is the greatest distribution genius in the world
“Mark, I think is Mark Zuckerberg is probably the best. I would say distribution genius in the world.”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 3:00 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Rajaram: Zuckerberg refused to anonymize Facebook in Japan and won
“I remember when Facebook had to go into Japan, Japanese cultural norms were that all the Japanese social networks back then were incognito. You couldn't, for some reason, maybe saving face or something. You could not share your real name or your photo. So ever…”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 46:24 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Rajaram ranks Page, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Xu as top CEOs
“I would say the best technical CEO, Larry Page, the best growth-centric CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, The best design-centric CEO, Jack Dorsey, and the best physical world operational CEO, the most likely to be Jeff Bezos next, Tony Xu.”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 1:14:03 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Andreessen: Innovating at scale requires dual leadership or rare solo visionaries
“To get kind of the holy grail of the large scale organization that's still innovating, either you need two people involved who are able to balance each other. And by the way, you could say this is like Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, you know, would be a canonical ex…”
Marc Andreessen Mar 15, 2026 ▶ 1:30:49 Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
20VC Opinion
Mitchell Green: Mark Zuckerberg is right to bet big on AI spending
“Mark Zuckerberg deserves to go for it. Like, he's, it's his business. He built the damn business. Like, I don't think you really have much to say to be like, oh, don't bet on the guy. And by the way, he kind of has to because his competitors are doing the same…”
Mitchell Green Mar 7, 2026 ▶ 9:06 Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Green: Markets irrationally heed random online research over top tech leaders
“It's incredible, like, why don't, it's amazing that people are listening to some random research firm versus listening to people like Stan Druckenmiller, Howard Marks, Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen, like, Mark Benioff, people like Mark Zuckerberg you know, Jensen W…”
Mitchell Green Mar 7, 2026 ▶ 15:17 Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tenev: Zuckerberg, Musk, and Benioff called during GameStop crisis
“Mark Zuckerberg called me, and Elon Musk called me, Mark Benioff called me”
Vlad Tenev Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 8:21 The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
TBPN Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Hays: Meta plans stablecoin payments comeback in second half of year
“Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning a stablecoin comeback in the second half of this year, eyeing a third party vendor as a key partner to power payments.”
Jordi Hays Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 26:20 Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Puri: Tech founders like Jobs and Zuckerberg keep their kids off screens
“Steve Jobs, you know, he'll invent the iPad and the iPhone, but at home his kids don't use it. Zuckerberg, his kids aren't on social media. It's like, do as they do, not as they say that you should do, right?”
Shaan Puri Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 51:56 Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
Ben Thompson: Digital ads are a societal good driving tech's consumer surplus
“Actually ads are good. They are societal good. They get, they are the driver of all the consumer surplus that tech throws off.”
Ben Thompson Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 21:06 Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
Ben Thompson: Meta's Facebook advertising is the world's most successful agent
“Actually the largest and most successful agent in the world today is Facebook advertising, which is exactly right.”
Ben Thompson Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 41:49 Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
TBPN Insight
Hays: Consumers say they hate AI content but actively engage with it
“He knows that people say they don't like AI content, but in reality they actually do. They engage with it, they watch it, they make it, they share it.”
Jordi Hays Jan 30, 2026 ▶ 16:34 Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
Great Founders Require an Operational Leader Like Eric Schmidt
“Almost every great founder or founding team Needs an Eric. Needs an Eric figure. If you look at it, Mark Zuckerberg had Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey at Keith Rebois, and Tony at DoorDash, we had Christopher Payne. So everyone had somebody who was complimentary…”
Gokul Rajaram Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 26:05 He Built The Revenue Engines for Google, Facebook & Square · Invest Like The Best
CEOs Should Dedicate 60% of Weekly Company Updates to Top-of-Mind Thoughts
“So the format I've used in the past and what I recommend and what people I've seen now, I've seen at least 15 CEOs adopted and to good effect is Three sections. One is called top of mind. So this is product, business, and team. Like, what is top of mind on the…”
Gokul Rajaram Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 41:30 He Built The Revenue Engines for Google, Facebook & Square · Invest Like The Best
Taylor calls Mark Zuckerberg the longest-term thinker he has ever met
“Mark Zuckerberg was probably the longest, longest term thinker I ever worked with. We used to go on long walks around Palo Alto talking about strategy, and every time I thought I was thinking long term, he was thinking about two times longer than me.”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 50:40 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
ALL-IN Opinion
Calacanis: Mark Zuckerberg is a political weathervane driven solely by growth
“I mean, if it was up to Zuckerberg, he would have continued to do it under Kamala. He did it with no problem under Biden. He's a weathervane. His entire position is based on what makes the system grow.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 31:56 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
20VC Opinion
Lemkin: Mark Zuckerberg is investing heavily in AI out of spite
“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…”
Jason Lemkin Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 34:41 Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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