Mark Zuckerberg

“There was a lot of debate about what the number should be, what time frame should be. And at some point, Zakja said, 10 friends, 14 days, go. And it just got people past the academic debate of like, all right, got it. As many friends as possible, as fast as po…”

“Some of the most innovative leaders in tech are famous micromanagers. Steve Jobs was a micromanager. Elon Musk is a micromanager. Mark Zuckerberg is a micromanager.”

“What he did, which not a lot of other people in his position do is he would tell you what the rules of engagement were for every meeting or invitation. He'd be like, look, I'm going to give you a spectrum of a, how much I care about this topic, everything from…”

“It's why there's such a, an execution machine and can build a lot of great product. It's because they focus exclusively on that magic word, which is impact.”

“Took seven months for me to go from there's, you know, this is amazing, exciting, but there's no way I can make this work to, okay, let's move to Palo Alto and Mark, the execs, a variety of leaders there were in discussions for months and months and months and…”

“Involving somebody's spouse and family, I think is a really good idea because it's a very personal decision to change company. It involves more than just that person you're talking to. It involves their whole family. So that was something that I think is an im…”

“That's something that I think more leaders should do is really recruit all of their peers and their leaders in the company to help close.”

“Zuckerberg is going to blow in excess of a billion dollars on threads, and it will fail. It already has failed, because you can't take an existing problem with an existing solution, launch exactly the same shit, tell the world it's better, and have the world e…”

“And the year prior, Zuck had been interviewed. He was the speaker. He'd been interviewed. He'd gotten a hard time on privacy. It didn't go well as well as they'd hoped. So the next year they asked me to do it.”

“I was prepared to come to market and say, we have the best value headset. Like if you want to outstanding best possible headset for the money, we've got it. It's the quest three. And I was so thrilled when I tried the AVP next to Mark, we were like, no, no, no…”

“One of the things that's so funny about Mark is he if you give him some feedback in the morning, the next like six meetings he has, whether it's about that product or not, he will ask people what they think of that feedback. He won't attribute, he's just like,…”

“So you'll give him feedback and he'll listen. Truly. He'll most often tell you that you're wrong. Why you're wrong. That's just like most often. And what will happen is it's uncanny. It's like over the course of the next like week or two, you'll just see shift…”

“And so Mark, we joke instead of meta to this day, we call it the eye of Sauron. When Mark has determined that the thing that you're working on is the most important thing, there is no detail too small. For him to notice, like he will be in a review and in the …”

“If you've ever met Mark Zuckerberg, he is not a, it's not a bottoms up thing. Like the ideas that we're pursuing are Mark Zuckerberg's ideas. First and foremost, that's not to say that he's not open to new ones.”

“Look, I I'm not the biggest fan of Meta, but Zuck is very good at product. Very good. That's sort of the problem in the world. He's so good at it.”

“When we joined the new product experimentation group we were actually seated, I think like at the, basically the same desk as Mark Zuckerberg.”

“Within a year, he was able to basically achieve an eighth grade fluency in Chinese”

“There is the biggest gap of anybody I know between what people think of Mark and who Mark really is. And so I think this is the mark that I've known for the past 20 years, and the world is finally getting to see what I've been lucky enough to see”

“I think a lot of times As you get more successful, or as you have more fame, or if you have more wealth, you lose having an accurate feedback loop and people may not want to be, you know, a hundred percent honest with you for various reasons”

“Mark wasn't like, you guys should create a growth team. Here's how you should operate. And so I think in some ways we established and grew a growth team and, you know, Mark sort of got on board or, you know, saw the value in it.”

“From a process perspective, we have one weekly sort of strategic meeting. It's more open-ended. There is time for discussion. It's longer, and it's sort of more unstructured. We also have one weekly operational meeting, which is highly structured where we go t…”

“Pincus and Zuckerberg were very good friends and Zuckerberg told Pincus that apps were going to be allowed to post to users timelines. This is why FarmVille grew almost overnight.”

“The framework that they develop. That turned out to blossom into an incredible cultural set of practices that every single team at Facebook adopted and is still a core part of what makes Facebook, Facebook today.”

“As soon as you are stuck, escalate. Go together. Go make your case to whoever it is. Go together up. That is unlocking, right? It's saving you a whole bunch of time.”

“Dario does not have dual class shares the way that Mark Zuckerberg or Larry and Sergey had.”