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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:39 Alexandr Wang Yeah, I think that, you know, we, a year ago, Mark wrote this, um, uh, memo about personal super intelligence, which I think actually is very similar to your concept of personal AGI, but, you know, we believe that everybody in the world,…

Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:36 Mark Pincus Met Zuckerberg when he first started, he came in my office. 2 times in the scene

The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator Dec 22, 2025 · 1 mention

How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator Apr 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:16 Derek Thompson It's true in software with Zuckerberg, Gates, as it is in science with, say, Heisenberg and Schrodinger, you know, breaking open quantum mechanics.

Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator Mar 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:47 Garry Tan I mean, Mark Zuckerberg was by far way more technical and way more in the weeds probably.

How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator Sep 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:26 Harj Taggar Facebook, one of the biggest companies in the world, is really now known as Mark Zuckerberg's company, but he actually co-founded it with Dustin Moskovitz.

Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator May 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:17 Jared Friedman I would announce, I would say it's analogous to Mark Zuckerberg's move fast and break things.

Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator Apr 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:52 Diana Hu Like Facebook famously was built on PHP because Mark was very familiar with that.

The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator Apr 14, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:32 Dalton Caldwell And some high school kids, um, Mark Zuckerberg and Adam D'Angelo, I believe, built a music recommendation plug-in for Winamp
  • ▶ 14:08 Dalton Caldwell In the Zuckerberg case, building Winamp plugins, that was part of the Napster thing.

Should You Start A Startup? | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14 Harj Taggar These depictions can make it seem that if you're not a ruthless, brilliant programmer like Mark Zuckerberg in the Social Network movie, or a charismatic product genius like Steve Jobs in one of the many books or movies about him, you…

Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator Dec 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:56 Matt Cutts Like, whenever Zuckerberg got testified and grilled in front of Congress, the market cap went down by, like, a hundred and twenty nine billion dollars in one day.

Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator Nov 27, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:12 Cory Doctorow Zuckerberg's so-called free speech talk this week. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:59 Cory Doctorow You know, Zuckerberg in that, um, recording that leaked to the verge of his all hands meeting describing, you know, Facebook's future and rubbishing, um,

EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator Aug 7, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 36:23 Russ Roberts It's like, you want to take Mark Zuckerberg aside and say, you know, Mark, you had a really good run. 4 times in the scene

Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:02 Craig Cannon Like everyone thinks like, oh, well, you know, Bill Gates and Zuck and like all these people dropped out of Harvard.

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 31:11 Geoff Ralston The belief that they bring, like whether it's Zuck or Larry and Sergey or. 4 times in the scene

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:18 Elad Gil Yeah, I think it's a good point because I think there was a real shift when, ah, Mark Zuckerberg hired Sheryl Sandberg as COO into people saying that founders can keep going. 3 times in the scene

Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:46 Michael Seibel When was the last time you suggested a feature to mark at Facebook, and then the feature came out?

A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Sep 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:06 Paul Graham Who would, or like Zuck, starting Facebook, you know, just like, let's see what happens, right?

Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator Aug 29, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:58 Sam Altman Met only a handful of founders, I think, that spend enough time on recruiting, like Mark Zuckerberg is famously one of them.

Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator Jul 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:30 Elad Gil They could, you know, become the next Mark Zuckerberg, or they could have a terrible life, but really all the possibilities in the world in some sense are available to them.

Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator Jul 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:00 Jessica Livingston I mean, imagine Mark Zuckerberg back in his dorm room in 2004 with his website that let college students see what other students at the school were doing.

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:51 Pejman Nozad Um, on, on the left side, if you look at the, the Mark Zuckerberg's and, and Sean Parker's email still was the Facebook.

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 2 mentions

Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:01 Sam Altman Interesting failure mode to me is people that we said no to that would have been the next Zuckerberg or Chesky or whatever, and there are three or four people over the years that I have turned down at interviews that didn't go on to do…

Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2018 · 1 mention

Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator Jan 3, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:27 unnamed speaker You know, there's the Larry Page and, uh, Mark Zuckerberg of the VR world. 2 times in the scene

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:13 Tikhon Bernstam That's such a great question, and I, that's, okay, um, yes, absolutely, and I, I actually think repeat founders are some, that's, are actually a disadvantage in many ways, because you feel this pressure to come up with some genius idea,…

Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator Jun 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:47 Ed Baker I think including Zuck, and then I, I heard the platform team shut it down shortly after that.

From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator May 31, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:24 Reid Hoffman Yes, and actually, I mean, there's a bunch of different, ah, parts of hacks on this, so one of the things that I actually learned from when, ah, Sean Parker and Zuckerberg hired Kohler from LinkedIn, and, you know, I was talking to Kohler…

Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator Mar 17, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:08 unnamed speaker Mark Zuckerberg once said, uh, that he tries to hire people that A, he would spend time with socially, and B, that he'd be comfortable reporting to if the roles were reversed.
  • ▶ 43:54 Sam Altman To use a Facebook example again, when Facebook's growth slowed in 2008, uh, Mark instituted a growth group. 2 times in the scene
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