Mark Zuckerberg

“There's chat transcripts of him talking at that time. Like, you know, Facebook's cool, but like, yeah, like I think Wirehog's the thing. You know, like, so even them, it's not obvious at that time. And whereas people try to project that these guys are visionar…”

“And in Russia, they just could never beat VK for, like, a combination of, like, slightly political reasons, but also I've seen interviews with Zuckerberg where he's like, Dude, they're engineers. These are like the most brilliant mathematicians ever, and they'…”

“Time exists on this massive power law basis... There could be an hour that comes in your life that is worth more than the cumulative sum of everything else you've spent all of the time, all of the effort, all of the energy that you've spent doing everything el…”

“If Facebook and Instagram had to compete with each other it would actually make Zuckerberg richer. Same with YouTube and Google. If they had to compete, it would probably make them better. And thus the owners a little bit more rich.”

“One of the best ways to get your company to realize you're serious about something is to go talk about it externally.”

“Like if you read his blog posts, so thoughtful, so brilliant, like next Zuckerberg, next Bill Gates type vibes for sure.”

“So Zuck, when Snapchat came out, I remember that he recognized the threat that was Snapchat so early on, and created Facebook Poke. He literally wrote code into the Facebook Poke, like, their competitor that they, I think they released it in nine days, or like…”

“For Facebook, they said last year, twenty six million was spent on Zuckerberg and his family, which was six percent higher than in 2020.”

“Mark Zuckerberg referenced this in a Lex Freeman interview, so it, like, went really far, and I was like, why did this go so far?”

“I remember how this guy made me feel and he made me feel the same way I felt when I heard Vitalik talk for the first time about, you know, weak at the knees. You know, Vitalik, when I heard him talk Zuckerberg, when you hear them talk, like people who are extr…”

“So I took I don't know, 250,000 dollars, like, I don't know, three or four months ago, and I bought meta because I was like, why is everybody down on meta? And I was like, did they forget the number one rule? You don't bet against Zuck.”

“Stan's currently not at NFX, which is where, where James is, the thing that they, I think they co-founded together, maybe they didn't co-founded together, but they were, you know, they've been doing business together for 20 years. Naturally, he would have been…”

“I think that if Mark Zuckerberg didn't raise venture capital, his company would be dead.”

“So I start buying the stock. I'm like that guy who liked the GameStop, you know, stock. And he said, I like the stock.”

“I worked directly with, you know, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for a short period of time at Facebook when they were trying to figure out how do they grow their audiences on Facebook?”

“And I let Arrington at TechCrunch know like, Hey, Facebook's opening up to at Microsoft and at corporate emails in the morning. I think you should write about it and get and talk about it. Cause Facebook wasn't going to do any press. And he wrote about it that…”

“Dude, I think he's uncomfortably underrated.”

“And the reason I've never sold a share of Facebook is I've been committed for a long time in this, in my own mind, which was I'll never sell until he's gone.”

“Noah was the 32nd or 30th employee employee... And Zuck goes to his desk and he goes, you're fucking with my company. You're out. And he fires him on month nine. So Noah was three months away from his first invest. And Noah's told me, he goes, had I just made …”

“To his credit, he outlines the entire strategy that Facebook has executed. He goes, first we're going to go to high schools, then we're going to go to workplaces, then we're going to go into pods, then we're going to like, he had the whole strategy. This is in…”

“For many years Mark Zuckerberg personally tried to recruit Stan, and he always said, no, no, no, no, no. And Zuck just kept reaching out, kept trying to recruit him, and eventually got Stan to join Facebook, and he ended up running Messenger, the, you know, th…”

“What Zuckerberg is trying to do right now with his virtual world is still behind what Corey Andreka and Philip were able to do with the technology in 2003 and four.”

“First, it raises the price for all of his competitors. So he's like, cool, even if they don't take my offer, now they have to pay 100 X what they were paying for talent before. Like, way to screw up their business.”

“You need to acknowledge the trade-off in the value itself. So, you know, Instead of saying, speed, because everybody says, yeah, of course, we all want to move fast. He would say, move fast and break things. That was the value. And because he said, move fast a…”

“The ones who truly Don't understand people are, don't actually turn out to be good CEOs. Like they don't get to that level. Like you can, you know, you can make fun of Larry Page or Elon or Zuck or so forth, but they are actually very smart about people.”

“I used to have this event, which I should probably bring back, but I ran out of room in my backyard called the CEO barbecue, where we would bring all the CEOs for the portfolio. And then we would just like put like very famous people around them. So we had lik…”

“The Facebook traffic had flattened and The current, the executive staff that he had at the time was trying to run a coup to force him to sell to Yahoo. So they were leaking all this stuff to Valleyrag at the time and Valleyrag was, you know, calling for Zuck t…”

“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?”

“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?”

“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…”