What I hear from Zuckerberg over and over is "we're good people and working on it, look at A and B things we're doing" with an implication that that's good enough, so what's everybody up in arms about? That's the core of his tone-deafness to me. If Zuckerberg is fully honest, it means he basically just doesn't have a grip on reality and he isn't fit to lead a corporation this big and impactful. And I tend to believe that, because he's ultimately just a college kid with a laptop who ended up in some circumstances that snowballed.
> ultimately just a college kid with a laptop who ended up in some circumstances that snowballed
When will this “just luck” characterization of Zuck die?
His entire company was certain they should sell for $1B, and most executives resigned when he didn’t. He maneuvered control of the majority of voting shares, how many other founders have done that? Instagram and WhatsApp were genius acquisitions everybody at the time clamored were too overpriced. Even Oculus has turned out to be the leading VR platform. All of the people close to him attest to his extreme intelligence.
Whether malicious or not, Zuck didn’t just “aw shucks I got lucky” into the majority owner of a $1T company, cmon…
Nah, he's really smart, but implying 1T is a measure of his genius is ridiculous. Not only does it downplay the massive contributions of hundreds of people including Peter Thiel and Cheryl Sandberg, but it ignores the market conditions that led to thefacebook.com going viral, not to mention the Winklevosses, who got paid billions in today's valuation. Do you believe that if Zuck never met the Winklevosses, he would have necessarily built a 1T company anyway, because quantity X of genius must necessarily manifest to F(X) valuation? I think the market violently disagrees with you.
I'm disagreeing with the "just a college kid" portrayal. There are of course a few circumstances greatly helped the trajectory, as did many other smart people help it along. What I'm trying to imprint is that without Zuck being very intelligent, the level of success Facebook would've had would be far far smaller.
