Mark Zuckerberg

“Companies exist for like big tech companies exist for the egos of the founders. And at the end of the day, he just wants to be liked. He just wants to build something that helps people.”

“And I think Evan Spiegel is a product genius. Like he truly is. If you think about the things Zuckerberg copied from him, ephemeral messaging, lenses, stories, I mean, and glasses.”

“Mark Zuckerberg is not stupid. He completely understands what is going on in web three and why they have to change as a business. You know, knowing many people at Meta, they get it because they won't exist otherwise.”

“Zuck didn't win because he was the best engineer on planet earth. It's because he really wanted to build stuff. I don't even think Facebook was his idea, right? Like, but he won. Why did he win? Like, you know cause he was the one who knew how to code.”

“Most builders are not risk seeking at all. Right? So when you look at founders, like the founder personality type, you have to overlay so many things that are like in the minority to get someone like a Patrick Collison or a Dylan field or a Mark Zuckerberg or …”

“Facebook introduced the like button about a year later, I'd had multiple dinners with Zuckerberg talking about social voting and things like that.”

“I think the piece that Mark does that other people Don't always see from the outside is this extreme humility and amazing self-awareness. So he knows when he doesn't know something and he doesn't just go in to learn it. He gives himself, or he used to, and I d…”

“Within a couple years, I was one of the only two journalists in the world who had access to him.”

“It's going to be a group of 10 people overseas somewhere who are running millions of accounts to the point where it floods social media, where Mark Zuckerberg's going to be like, oh, like, we have to tone this back, like, or else it's just going to flood the i…”

“I also think that there's this new trust in small brands. You know, there's this new trend, you know, shop local, right? Like, it's almost like people want indie hackers and indie startups to win. I think that's a big reason why Peter Lovells and people like h…”