Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerbergis an American programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. His net worth is estimated to be US$54.9 billion, as of July 2016, ranking him as the 5th richest person in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 May 1984
CityWhite Plains, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough. I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.
People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.
When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.