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
You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
There's lots of stuff none of us have ever seen before. That's good in some ways, but limiting in other ways.
I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.
Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.
It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.