Mark Zuckerberg
14 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2016 by Mark Zuckerberg · said 46 times in 30 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sam Altman (4), Russ Roberts (4), Geoff Ralston (4), Elad Gil (4), Harj Taggar (3), Cory Doctorow (3), Paul Buchheit (2), Mark Pincus (2)
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 19 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator
- Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
- The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Mark Zuckerberg, oldest first
Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 positive
Zuckerberg: Facebook Runs Tens of Thousands of Live Product Variations Simultaneously
“At any given point in time, there aren't, there's not just one version of Facebook running in the world, right? There's probably tens of thousands of versions running because engineers here have the power to try out an idea and ship it to, you know, maybe 10,0…”
Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016
Zuckerberg: Social understanding required expression tools, not search indexing
“All that other content was just out there able to be indexed by, you know, search engines and other services, but in, in order to understand what's going on with people, you needed to build tools that made it so that they could express what was going on with t…”
Aug 16, 2016 negative
Zuckerberg: Deciding to start a company before choosing a problem is backwards
“You know, I always think that this is kind of a perverse thing about Silicon Valley in a way, which is that, you know, people decide often that they want to start a company before they even decide what they want to do. And that just feels really backwards to m…”
Aug 16, 2016 neutral
Zuckerberg: Better internal expertise might have avoided buying Oculus
“When I look at things like, you know, we bought you know, the Oculus team for a lot of money, right? I actually view that as you know, if we'd done a better job of building up some of the expertise to do some of that stuff internally, then, you know, maybe we …”
Aug 16, 2016 positive
Aug 16, 2016
Zuckerberg: 5-to-10-year corporate bets are harder than early buyout decisions
“Sometimes you have to bet on something and, you know, either, you know, bet the direction of the company or, you know, bet billions of dollars on something, and it's not going to be clear whether you're right for five or 10 years. And, you know, that, that I t…”
Aug 16, 2016 neutral
Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 positive
Zuckerberg: Any company can replicate Facebook's growth group with data infrastructure
“There's no magic In the growth group that we that we built that other people can't replicate, you know, it's just being very rigorous with data, investing in data infrastructure, so that way you can process all these different experiments and learn what people…”
Jun 23, 2017
Aug 29, 2018 negative
Oct 18, 2018 positive
Gil: Zuckerberg hiring Sandberg shifted tech away from replacing founder-CEOs
“I think there was a real shift when, ah, Mark Zuckerberg hired Sheryl Sandberg as COO into people saying that founders can keep going. Because what happened in the nineties was Founders were quickly replaced by professional CEOs if they raised any venture capi…”