Lacy: Zuckerberg's unique differentiator is extreme humility and zero ego when learning
Sarah Lacy · 2 $1M+ EdTech Startups you can launch tomorrow · Oct 23, 2024 · at 34:57
Tech journalist Sarah Lacy reflects on what she learned after spending hundreds of hours shadowing Mark Zuckerberg for her book.
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“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 don't, I'm not close to him anymore, but he would really put himself in a position of extreme humility and he had no ego in the fact of, oh, I don't know this thing. I have to posture like I know it. He'd be like, I don't know this thing and it's vital.”
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